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I94 - Pleiades – holes.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
The Pleiades are something holey.Berezkin category: Supernatural objects, objects and creatures
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 2, Moon spots, stars, constellations
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| K126 | 98.89% | A predatory beast or demon eats the hero's horse, but in return is forced or voluntarily helps him. |
| I46A | 98.02% | The rainbow is associated with a woman, usually an elderly one. |
| I13B | 97.84% | A small snake, the snake has horns on its head. |
| L72D | 97.60% | Fleeing for his life, the character throws behind him a pair of scissors, which turn into some kind of obstacle in the path of his pursuer. |
| K112 | 97.37% | A man accuses the Sun and other characters responsible for the weather, wild animals, etc. of causing him to lose his property; he punishes his offenders. |
| M57D1 | 97.29% | bird consistently gives a person magical objects (or gives one, with which he receives the rest) or consistently fulfills his wishes. |
| N10 | 97.28% | A woman or (rarely) a man with a transparent body is described. This transparency is a sign of beauty. |
| K73A4 | 97.18% | Malicious women replace the newborn with a puppy (telling the father that his wife has given birth to a puppy). See motifs K73, K73A. |
| I128 | 96.95% | The Big Dipper – a ladle, a scoop. |
| I87AA | 96.75% | Describes a giant bull (rarely: horse): head in one field, body in another; a bathhouse on its tail, a lake on its back; people standing at its head and tail have to walk a long way to meet each other; etc. Usually the bull is killed and eaten (by people in Baltic-Finnish traditions and in Olonets antiquity; by birds in most southern traditions). |
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This motif has been recorded in 24 traditions: Ancient Italy: Latins, Etruscans, Magna Graecia, Poles, Hungarians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Livonians, Estonians, Finns, Byelarusians, Belarusians, Russians: Central part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, Smolensk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Vyatka, Perm, Kazan provinces), Persians, Armenians, Crimean Tatars, Karaims, Hui (Dungan) of Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan (Dungan texts from Southern and Eastern China are clustered with the Chinese ones), Bashkirs, Mari (Cheremis), Chuvash, Udmurt, Central Yakuts (Sakha), Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu, Oroch, Chukchi, Plains Ojibwa, Prussians