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M154A1 - Pregnant wife on a pregnant mare.
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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 man who understands the language of animals hears the mare say that she is carrying four (three): she has a foal in her belly, and the woman in the saddle is also pregnant.Berezkin category: Adventures: Tricks and episodes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 11, Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| L42I | 99.84% | Creatures from another world carry off a little boy. His sister takes him and safely escapes from their pursuers. Usually the boy has two or three sisters, and only the youngest succeeds. |
| B33G | 99.83% | Horsemen or horses represent celestial bodies or different periods of the day. |
| I47A | 99.83% | The rainbow is associated with the wedding of a fox or jackal. |
| I87F | 99.83% | Before modern humans, there lived others who differed in strength, height, nobility, or other qualities. They disappeared after committing suicide. |
| K181A | 99.83% | When a person puts their hand on a horse's back, it bends over and falls. This is a sign of heroic strength. |
| K73B7 | 99.83% | The hero saves the magical wife from her enemy at a time when both the future wife and the enemy have zoomorphic appearances. Later, the rescued woman becomes a woman. |
| L108G | 99.83% | The character is black and must sit in water until he turns white. The antagonist carries him away. |
| M39A5A2 | 99.83% | My husband found a treasure. He knows his wife will talk about it. In order not to believe her, her husband says, and the wife then repeats, that the judge suffered from the hail that fell at that time (soup spilled from the sky) (lost an eye, ulcers on his face). The judge furiously drives the woman away, the treasure remains with her husband. |
| N12 | 99.83% | A powerful character makes or tells you to make a cloak or fur coat from human beards and/or mustaches. |
| M191 | 99.80% | The fox (dog, squirrel) lives with the cat and pretends to be a strong beast; forest predators are frightened and bring meat to appease the cat. |
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This motif has been recorded in 11 traditions: Sardinia, Corsica, Sardinians, Corsicans, France, Slovakians, Slovaks, Greeks (modern), Balkarians, Bulgarians, Balkarians, Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians, Moldovans, Albanians, Balkarians, Georgians, Armenians, Azeris (Azerbaijanis), Kazakh