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L6A - Asks to be carried.
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Summary of Motif
An unremarkable, weak-looking character asks a person to carry him or her on their back, and then refuses to get off.Berezkin category: Adventures: Monsters and evil spirits
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
L6 has 1 other sub-motifsL6. The creature demands that the person carry it constantly, not allowing itself to be thrown off. L6a. An unremarkable, weak-looking character asks a person to carry him or her on their back, and then refuses to get off. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of L6's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| M96 | 90.37% | In order not to share with family members, the character pretends to have guests and eats everything himself. |
| E9C | 86.96% | Before meeting the hero, his beloved (wife, helper) has the image of a large hoofed mammal (buffalo, antelope, moose, etc.). |
| M53C | 84.88% | trickster, inviting birds to dance around him with their eyes closed, kills them one at a time and threatens to turn red at the one that opens their eyes; this is an empty threat, or for a bird that opens eyes and eyes have really turned red ever since. |
| M24 | 84.82% | turtle goes to war and/or is captured. See M23 motif. Cf. motif K77 “Verlioka”. |
| F93 | 84.74% | After a person performs a certain action, his penis begins to speak (often repeating what the person has said). |
| L15B1 | 84.65% | In the battle between positive and negative creators, the positive one chooses the deer horn as a weapon – usually because this is the only weapon that the enemy fears. |
| G30 | 84.59% | A long penis is cut into pieces, which turn into many edible plants or different types of trees. Cf. motif B53. |
| M26 | 84.59% | The character dives under waterfowl and ties a rope to their legs to catch them. Birds soar into the air, lifting the catcher with them. It later falls. |
| K48A | 84.49% | The hero's costume and/or headdress are decorated with live birds or animals. Usually, the antagonist steals the clothes and pretends to be the hero, but the birds and animals on his headdress remain silent or cry out differently. See motif K48. |
| L91 | 84.35% | Two or four young men go on a journey or return from one. Their path is blocked by a long creature that cannot be bypassed. They burn a passage through it. One eats roasted meat, turns into a snake himself, or dies. See motif L28. |
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This motif has been recorded in 21 traditions: Bushmen (all groups), Uzbek, Persians, Armenians, Anatolia Turks, 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), Darkhad, Tuscarora, Omaha, Ponca, Iowa, Arikara, Pawnee, Wichita; Spiro Mound iconography, Tonkawa, Plains Cree, Assiniboine, Oregon Athabaskans: Lower Umpqua, Tututni (incl Joshua), Upper Coquille, Galice, Tolowa, Natchez (incl Avoyel), Alabama, Koasati, Cherokee, Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)