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N10 - Transparent body
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Summary of Motif
A woman or (rarely) a man with a transparent body is described. This transparency is a sign of beauty.Berezkin category: Fabulous and epic formulas
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 13, Formulae
N10 has 3 other sub-motifsN10. A woman or (rarely) a man with a transparent body is described. This transparency is a sign of beauty. N10a. A woman or (rarely) a man with a transparent body is described - bones are visible through the skin, bone marrow is visible through the bones. This transparency is a sign of beauty. N10b. A girl or (rarely) a young man with a transparent neck is described, through which you can see the drinks and/or food that this girl or boy swallows. This neck is a sign of beauty. N10c. A girl is described, through whose body you can see her internal organs or the food she has swallowed. This is a sign of beauty. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of N10's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| L72D | 98.09% | Fleeing for his life, the character throws behind him a pair of scissors, which turn into some kind of obstacle in the path of his pursuer. |
| I94 | 97.28% | The Pleiades are something holey. |
| I68B | 96.91% | On a certain night of the year, any wish that is expressed or conceived will come true. Cf. motif M13. |
| K126 | 96.48% | A predatory beast or demon eats the hero's horse, but in return is forced or voluntarily helps him. |
| C28 | 95.84% | A demonic character takes possession of a valuable item without which another character (and people) will perish. The demon is tricked into returning the valuable item. |
| H27A1 | 95.52% | Reptiles and insects crawl out of holes in the ground, bringing disease. |
| N10B | 95.45% | A girl or (rarely) a young man with a transparent neck is described, through which you can see the drinks and/or food that this girl or boy swallows. This neck is a sign of beauty. |
| H27A | 95.18% | When creating the earth, a negative character asks a positive character for as much earth as is necessary to prop up a staff, stake. |
| J26A | 94.85% | Among children of a woman or two women living together, there is a boy and a puppy, or a puppy was placed with a woman, and her son was thrown out. The puppy lives with the woman and helps her. |
| I128 | 94.64% | The Big Dipper – a ladle, a scoop. |
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This motif has been recorded in 28 traditions: Algeria Arabs, Simeulue, Nias, Lampung (Lampong); South Sumatra Malays (incl. Bengkulu), Catalan, Germans: North (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg, Pommern, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen, Brandenburg, Rügen, Serbs, Monte Negro, Balkarians, Karelians, Byelarusians, Belarusians, Russians: Central part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, Smolensk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Vyatka, Perm, Kazan provinces), Uzbek, Persians, Ossetians, Ingush, Kurds, Kara Kalpak, 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), Turkmen, Chuvash, Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks), Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks), Forest Nenets, Buryats: Western (cis Baikal), Shor, Central Yakuts (Sakha), Nanai, Negidal, Forest (Upper Kolyma) Yukaghir, Chechens