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J62B1 - The mistress of the island turns men into animals.
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Summary of Motif
A sorceress living on an island turns men into animals.Berezkin category: Avenger heroes: The amerinday cycle
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
J62 has 4 other sub-motifsJ62. The character turns those who come to him into inanimate objects (usually stones). (In variants of the ATU 303 plot, the motif is often absent; original texts are needed). J62a. The character turns those who come to him into plants (trees, flowers). The hero (heroine) remains alive and breaks the spell on those who have been transformed. J62b. The character turns those who come to him into animals. Thanks to the hero, they are disenchanted. J62b1. A sorceress living on an island turns men into animals. J62c. In order to destroy the young man, the antagonist arouses in his sister (rarely: in him himself) a desire to possess wonderful objects, the attempt to obtain which is deadly dangerous. The young man sets off to obtain the objects. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of J62's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| K65E1 | 99.47% | A woman delivers a baby (baptises a child) for a creature that in the human world has the appearance of a toad or frog. |
| M163A | 98.75% | A man sells a cat (rooster) to people who do not know about cats (or chickens). Having received a cat or rooster, people do not know what to feed them and fear that they will eat people. |
| K120A3 | 98.65% | The character receives a nut containing valuables (beautiful clothes, jewellery, animal helpers, etc.), or (Germans, Latvians) hides the valuables in the nut himself to use them later. |
| K56A5C | 98.39% | A man who kindly answers the questions of characters representing the weather in certain months of the year is rewarded. Another man scolds them and is punished. |
| M29Z3 | 98.10% | The Gipsy (more often a female than a male) is an enemy overcome by the hero (heroine) or (rare) a weak failure |
| K27Z2F | 98.06% | A poor girl buys a doll (goose) that defecates gold. When the neighbours take the doll, it only dirties their house. They throw it away, and the prince uses it to wipe himself, and it sticks to his backside. No one can help, but the poor girl easily solves the problem. The prince marries her. |
| K155B | 97.97% | A girl lets down her hair, which another character uses to climb up to her. |
| K57C | 97.74% | The prince puts a ring on the finger of a beautiful girl, not knowing that she is the very girl who works in his kitchen. The girl slips the ring into the prince's food, and he recognises it. |
| K73B4 | 97.66% | A person is asked to fill a bag (cauldron) with truth (lies, fairy tales). He fulfils the request by telling a revealing story. |
| K33E | 97.49% | Newborn children disappear (die) one after another, but are returned to their wife or husband grown up and in good health. |
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This motif has been recorded in 4 traditions: England, British, Bretons, Ancient Italy: Latins, Etruscans, Magna Graecia, Ancient Greece, Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)