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M8D - Extend the hole in the body
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Birds break through the hard cover on the character's body to reach his entrails.Berezkin category: Adventures: Tricks and episodes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
M8 has 4 other sub-motifsM8. Some characters (not humans) are struggling to break a strong barrier that prevents access to the desired location or to a high-value object. See also M8A - M8D motifs; they are included in the M8 motif in the correlation tables. M8a. Animals, and more often birds, find it difficult to break through a rock from the outside or inside, make a hole in the tree, in the body of an absorber creature, tear fetters, etc., to help a character or get out of the confined space by yourself. The list includes groups whose texts deal with the exit of the first ancestors to earth from a confined space. M8b. Animals, and often birds, struggle to break through the rock to get water or honey hidden inside it. M8c. Birds pierce through a layer of clay, wax, resin, etc., that covers the character's eyes or anus. M8d. Birds break through the hard cover on the character's body to reach his entrails. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of M8's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| F13 | 99.38% | The genitals of humans or monkeys acquire their current shape and colour as a result of copulation with a girl who had a toothy womb or no vagina. |
| I83 | 99.30% | Birds (especially vultures and eagles) lived or live in the sky, usually on one of several tiers of the upper world. |
| L36 | 99.22% | At the moment when the husband climbs or descends from a tree, his wife (or her brother) kills or maims him or turns into a demon that pursues him. |
| L44A | 99.21% | The demon demands that the man hiding in the shelter give him parts of his body. The man gives the demon parts of the body of a dead animal. The demon does not understand the deception and dies, giving parts of his own body in return. |
| D7 | 99.18% | The frog or toad possesses the first fire, steals it from its original owner, and tries to extinguish it or save it from dying out. See motif D4. |
| L88 | 99.07% | A man kills a demon, but when he touches its remains some time later, it comes to life. |
| B99 | 99.06% | A person or their head left on a tree turns into an insect nest. |
| J15A | 99.06% | Setting off on a journey (usually in search of a fiancé, husband, or relatives), a woman finds herself in the lair or settlement of large dangerous predators - pumas or jaguars. See motif J15. |
| I5A | 99.01% | The tapir is associated with the upper world (thunder, sky, moon). |
| K13D | 99.01% | A group of boys reaches the sky, the last one's leg is cut off or torn off. |
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This motif has been recorded in 9 traditions: Crow, Chayahuita , Barasana, Taibano, Macuna, Maue (Mawe), Mojo, Baure, Itonama, Kanichana, Chiquito, Manasi, Mundurucu, Curuaia, Makka, Nivakle (=Chulupi, Ashluslay, Ajlujlay), Chorote