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K43C - The dog unties the children.
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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 bound children (a young man and his sister) are left alone in an empty camp, and the animal frees them.Berezkin category: Adventures: Acts of heroes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
K43 has 3 other sub-motifsK43. People leave a boy, a girl, a sister and brother, a young woman or young spouses alone and leave, or drive them away. Those who are abandoned or expelled discover unusual abilities or helpers, obtaining blood and food. [Materials on European fairy tales are mostly not yet included] K43a. People leave a boy, a girl, a sister and brother, a young woman or young spouses alone and depart. Someone sympathises with those who have been abandoned and secretly hides fire for them. K43b. People leave a boy, a girl, a sister and brother, a young woman or young spouses alone and leave, or drive them away. Those who are left behind or driven away discover unusual abilities or helpers, obtaining blood and food. Those who are abandoned eat their fill, while those who abandon them go hungry. A character (often a bird - a crow, magpie, seagull, etc.) visits the abandoned and brings a piece of fat or meat to the camp of the starving. K43c. The bound children (a young man and his sister) are left alone in an empty camp, and the animal frees them. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of K43's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| C10A | 99.94% | During the flood, some birds save themselves by clinging to the sky with their beaks. Cf. A2211.7 ("During the flood, birds cling to the sky; their tails acquire their current colour"). |
| J20 | 99.49% | While the husband or brother is hunting, an evil spirit comes to his wife or sister; he kills or maims her or her brother after she breaks the taboo of opening the door to the guest, looking at him or talking to him. See motif J19. |
| M82 | 99.00% | The character sees that something is tied to the other's tail. He also wants such a tail for himself, and as a result he suffers damage. |
| E6A | 98.47% | People walk across a (frozen) body of water to reach their current place of residence, while some remain on the other side or drown. |
| M48 | 98.18% | Trickster asks another zoomorphic character to turn him into a creature of his kind, but if he breaks the condition for transformation, he becomes himself again. Usually, a trickster asks a bison or elk to turn it into a bison or elk. The bison (elk) rushes to the trickster, which bounces off in fear. The next time the trickster stays in place, metamorphoses, but regains its former appearance after trying to turn another trickster into a bison, etc. |
| J59B | 98.07% | To revive the dead, the character shoots an arrow into the sky or throws an object. It is assumed that the dead, fearing the falling object, will come back to life and run away. |
| M67 | 98.07% | By stupidity or carelessness, the character causes a wind that blows him away. See the M66 motif (The Trickster emits a stream of intestinal gases). |
| K25B | 97.48% | A woman climbs a tree trying to catch a porcupine and ends up in the sky. |
| M79 | 97.48% | A person joins the dancers; it turns out that the dancers are reeds or trees in the wind. |
| K19G | 97.21% | One star is an old man, the other is a young man; both stars differ in brightness or colour, but it is impossible to determine the age of the star-man by these characteristics (a dim star may be young and vice versa); usually two girls want to marry stars of different types (one bright, the other dim, one red, the other blue, etc.). See motif K19B. |
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This motif has been recorded in 9 traditions: Shan, Ahom, Khampti, Micmac, Blackfoot, Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina), Arapaho, Mandan, Iowa, Pawnee, Gros Ventre