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N27A - There is even bird milk
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Summary of Motif
It is said that somewhere there is (or was) even bird’s milkBerezkin category: Fabulous and epic formulas
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 13, Formulae
N27 has 3 other sub-motifsN27. Bird milk (variant: chicken, pigeon, hawkish, etc.) milk is mentioned in fairy tales, riddles, paroemias and conspiracies as something very rare and difficult to obtain or non-existent actually. N27a. It is said that somewhere there is (or was) even bird’s milk N27b. It is said that someone is only lacking bird’s milk or that somewhere the only thing missing is bird’s milk N27c. It is claimed that the bird has no milk and/or breasts Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of N27's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| B33D | 99.59% | An elderly woman embodies winter, is associated with snow, and/or at the border between winter and spring (autumn) there are several very cold days associated with a certain old woman. |
| K27X8 | 99.41% | Only the frog (toad) knows the way to the object that is unattainable for ordinary people, which the hero is looking for (and helps him get there). |
| C3 | 99.25% | The snake (eel, frog) saved the ship (or the whole world) by plugging the hole from which water was pouring with its body. |
| I95 | 99.19% | The Pleiades are a sieve or riddle for sifting agricultural products. See motif I95. |
| N27B | 99.15% | It is said that someone is only lacking bird’s milk or that somewhere the only thing missing is bird’s milk |
| B32A | 99.12% | The enemies of a hero sailing the sea turn into seals or dolphins. |
| I137 | 99.12% | One of the constellations is associated with footwear, usually with (worn-out) bast shoes. |
| I95B | 99.12% | Orion is a yoke. |
| K35A7 | 99.12% | A character finds a feather, the touch of which brings health and beauty. |
| K38F3 | 99.12% | To kill the dragon, the hero digs a pit and hides in it. When the dragon crawls nearby or over the pit, the hero strikes it with a fatal blow of his sword. |
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This motif has been recorded in 15 traditions: Ancient Italy: Latins, Etruscans, Magna Graecia, 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, Poles, Greeks (modern), Balkarians, Bulgarians, Balkarians, Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians, Moldovans, Albanians, Balkarians, Ancient Greece, 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), Persians, Svans, Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz, Georgians, Bashkirs, Mari (Cheremis)