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B40B - The horse changes with the cow.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
The horse changes with the cow, gives up its horns and/or gets teeth.Berezkin category: The Origins of the Characteristics of the environment
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 7, Etiology of plants and animals and of their peculiar features, particular animals as protagonists of cosmological stories, metamorphoses, weather and calendar
B40 has 2 other sub-motifsB40. The hare/rabbit is a false deer, a former deer, a brother of the deer, a former or failed owner of antlers, its ears are false antlers. B40a. Nowadays, hornless animals lose their horns or are deprived of the opportunity to grow them. See motif B40. B40b. The horse changes with the cow, gives up its horns and/or gets teeth. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of B40's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| C18A | 94.81% | The hidden sun is lured out by the rooster, or people believe that without the rooster's crow, the sun will not rise. |
| F28A2 | 94.28% | The owner of the field, either intentionally or having misheard the question, replies that he grows penises. After that, penises grow in the field instead of crops. |
| F28A4 | 90.85% | The fruits or stems of plants are penises. |
| H6BB | 90.54% | A character is sent to deliver a certain object or substance to people, the possession of which is essential to them. The messenger loses these objects or brings others. Usually, this refers to the ability to be reborn after death. Traditions not related to the explanation of human mortality are marked with an asterisk*. |
| M110 | 89.90% | Upon learning that it is being transported by water to be eaten, the land animal explains to the transporter that it has forgotten on the shore the organ without which the meat is not tasty, which must be used as medicine, etc. The transporter agrees to return for this organ, and the animal runs away. |
| L93B | 89.84% | The hare or rabbit, resorting to cunning, helps the hero or heroine, saving them. |
| F100 | 89.82% | A magic potion reveals that the only chaste woman is the maid, an orphan, etc. The king chooses the maid. |
| M151 | 89.74% | A dangerous character pretends to be dead or absent, or pretends to be an inanimate object. The potential victim says aloud that the deceased (object or place – house, burrow, log, etc.) should do or say something. The character does so, revealing himself. |
| I88 | 89.47% | Describes a creature with several tails. |
| F28A1 | 88.54% | The living penis is a dangerous creature that attacks people. |
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This motif has been recorded in 10 traditions: Burmese, Intha, Viet, Muong, Bondo, Didayi (Gata'), Gutob (=Gadaba; cf Dravidian-speaking Gadaba), Sinhalese; Vedda, Poles, Hungarians, Western Ukrainians, Tats, Eastern Ukrainians, Northern Ukrainians