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L27 - The eaten maiden.
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Summary of Motif
Sisters or friends encounter a demon. One or both do not understand the danger. One is eaten or maimed, the other escapes.Berezkin category: Adventures: Monsters and evil spirits
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
L27 has 1 other sub-motifsL27. Sisters or friends encounter a demon. One or both do not understand the danger. One is eaten or maimed, the other escapes. L27a. Sisters or a brother and sister find themselves in the same house with an antagonist, whose cannibalism they only suspect or do not know about at all. Trying to hide his actions, the cannibal eats one of the children. The other child or children run away, and the antagonist pursues them. Usually the antagonist is female, and if male, he has no sexual interest in his victims. (In the Central Andes, the plot may have been borrowed in the 19th century from Chinese migrants; see motifs J47, M21). Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of L27's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| I81 | 93.78% | Earthly waters fall into the abyss. |
| D1B | 88.87% | The man is the master or embodiment of fire (alone or alongside the woman-fire). |
| L18 | 88.30% | A bird with two or more heads in descriptions or images. |
| C2 | 86.86% | The inhabitants of the middle world (in part) are destroyed (or will be destroyed) once by fire or drought, another time by a flood, or the world is flooded with a stream of fire and boiling water. |
| L38 | 86.22% | The demon sets a trap, and people fall into it. Cf. motif K64A. |
| H28 | 85.68% | A creature that has been killed and destroyed (often burned) (usually a cannibal, a ferocious animal, or a powerful shaman) turns into stinging insects or other harmful, unpleasant, or dangerous creatures. |
| G6 | 85.40% | One of the trees is the main, original tree, which is very different from the others (it was the first to appear; the progenitor of trees; the progenitor of wild or cultivated plants; the sea and rivers within it; the world axis; higher than the others; obscuring the sky). |
| I29 | 85.17% | A character climbs into an animal's burrow and finds himself in the underworld, or digs a deep hole and finds himself in a world inhabited by burrowing animals. |
| B12 | 82.24% | The riverbed follows the path of a snake, fish, dragon, or crab; the river arises from parts of the snake's body; the river is a snake. |
| F5B | 81.67% | The character (listed in square brackets in the list of ethnic groups) offers another woman. Not having one or not wanting to give her away, he makes a bride out of wood, snow, etc., turns an animal into a girl, sends a servant instead of his daughter, turns himself into a woman, or confesses to the lie when the trouble is over. See motif E8. |
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This motif has been recorded in 26 traditions: Eastern Arunachal Pradesh: Abor (incl Minyong, Shimong, Padam, Pasi, Panggi), Apa Tani (Apatani), Bori, Bugun, Dafla (=Nyishi, Nisi, Nishing, incl Tagin), Gallong (=Galo, Adi), Mishmi, Garo (Atchik), Kachari (Bodo, incl. Lalung), Dimasa, Tripuri, Riang (of Tripura), Khami, Riga, Mori, Kuki, Chiru, Falam (Hallam), Chin (Meitei =Manipuri, Khami, =Kumi), Lakher, Mizo (Lushei), Anal, Pawi (Lai), Purum, Koireng, Milhiem, Kolhen, Mru, Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China, Estonians, Western Sami, Iranian literary tradition (including Avesta, Pahlevi scripts, Sah-nameh, Marzban-nameh); Zoroastrians of Iran, Indian Parsees, Zoroastrianism, Mansi, Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks), Mongols (Khalkha), Khakas, Nenets, Southern Selkups, Tungus (Evenki): Baikal region, Evenks, Evens (Lamuts), Nanai, Yana, Sicuani, Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan), Colorado (Tsachila), Karijona, Witoto, Ocaina, Urubu (Urubu-Kaapor), Rikbaktsa, Paresi, Caraja