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K87A1 - The child is handed over.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
A demonic woman asks the baby's mother to let her hold him or secretly replaces another person who was supposed to take the child. Once she has the baby, the demon takes him away.Berezkin category: Adventures: Acts of heroes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
K87 has 3 other sub-motifsK87. A woman becomes the wife of an animal (rarely another non-human creature). The husband takes care of her, but the marriage ends with the murder of the husband, the woman, their offspring, the woman's relatives, the transformation of the woman herself into an animal, leading to hostility between humans and animals, etc. K87a. A forest woman receives or kidnaps a little boy and raises him to be her lover. K87a1. A demonic woman asks the baby's mother to let her hold him or secretly replaces another person who was supposed to take the child. Once she has the baby, the demon takes him away. K87b. A woman is picking berries, steps in bear droppings, and scolds the bears. The offended bear takes her away and marries her. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of K87's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| F79 | 89.66% | The character successively marries various women of non-human nature, but each time (usually, except for the last) he is disappointed. |
| K8A | 89.45% | The character enters the belly of an aquatic creature or a giant creature whose appearance and habitat are not precisely described. He kills the creature from within (K952) and/or returns to the outside without outside help. Upon emerging from the belly, he often finds himself bald (K921). Cf. motifs I81B (Charybdis) and L110 (Devourer). |
| L65 | 89.12% | An infant or small child turns out to be a demon and kills people. |
| F40C | 89.11% | An authoritative man systematically kills the boys born to his wives or his sister. |
| B18 | 88.78% | Daylight, warmth, sun or moon are stored in a vessel, under a vessel, under a cover, in a bag, etc. |
| L59 | 88.06% | A woman eats the best food or eats fruit before it is ripe; as punishment, she undergoes metamorphosis. |
| L61 | 87.86% | The character eats himself, guts himself, or kills himself in order to be eaten. |
| I106 | 87.75% | The Great Bear is one anthropomorphic character, not a group of people. |
| I17 | 86.94% | Creatures without mouths, anuses, or genitals, unable to give birth, live underground, in the sky, across the sea, or in certain areas. (Traditions describing women unable to give birth are marked with an asterisk*). |
| I72 | 86.78% | Stars – anthropomorphic beings. See motif K19 (marriage to a star). Cases where the Star is a unique object, e.g. Venus, rather than one of many Star-people, are not included. |
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This motif has been recorded in 4 traditions: Torricelli family: Valman, Samap, Arapesh (Upper, Coastal), Monumbo, Lilau, Ngaimbom; Moando (Banara); Menya, Olo, Bugi, Macassar, Meo (Hmong) of Thailand, Laos and Northern Vietnam, Chemehuevi