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B68 - Giant hazel grouse.
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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 giant hazel grouse became small – it was usually torn into pieces, which turned into the current hazel grouse.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
B68 has 2 other sub-motifsB68. The giant hazel grouse became small – it was usually torn into pieces, which turned into the current hazel grouse. B68a. Birds quarrel, and the one who claimed high status cripples the weak one. For this, the others order her to carry the crippled one on her back. B68b. A character who, by his appearance, behaviour or unexpected appearance, tried to frighten God (people) and was turned into an animal (with a different appearance than before) for this. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of B68's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| K44B | 100.00% | The hero or heroine returns after a long absence. Seeing (usually from the roof of the house) his or her parents (mother, husband) languishing in poverty, he or she throws food at them, extinguishes the fire, pushes them, etc. At first, they usually do not understand what is going on. |
| A29A | 98.29% | Heavenly and earthly women (demons) pull a man in different directions. As a result, he (or his half) turns into a heavenly object. |
| M84B2 | 98.15% | The character carefully preserves the bones of migratory birds eaten (not fish or animals) and the birds come to life again. (Episodes of reviving a domestic goose or rooster are not taken into account in everyday tales). |
| B42MN | 98.00% | Only one character (rather than several) chases an animal (elk or bear) across the sky, associated with one of the circumpolar constellations, but not with the Pleiades or Orion. (In the Kalevala tradition, there is no identification with stars). |
| M162A | 97.37% | The character pretends to eat his own genitals. Another believes him and castrates himself. |
| I22B1 | 97.35% | Some migratory birds (shamans in the form of birds) die on the border of our world. |
| B72C | 96.90% | Children run after their mother, injure themselves, and their blood stains plants, the ground, and the evening sky. |
| B48A | 96.62% | The bodies of animals, birds or fish contain internal organs or muscles that were originally parts of the bodies of other animals, birds, fish or monsters. Cf. motif B36C. |
| K8C2 | 95.26% | The mouse is swallowed by a large land animal and comes out by cutting it open from the inside. |
| B120 | 94.87% | There are creatures that sleep in winter, and frozen snot hangs from their noses. (Motif identified by Evgenia Korovina). |
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This motif has been recorded in 18 traditions: Latvians, Finns, Karelians, Western Sami, Swedes, 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), Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks), Mansi, Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks), Buryats: Western (cis Baikal), Khakas, Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit, Altaians, Southern Selkups, Central Yakuts (Sakha), Tungus (Evenki): Baikal region, Evenks, Nanai, Negidal, Yughs