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B95 - Burnt sphincter.




5 Myths, Legends and Folktales
5 Unique Narratives for Motif B95
5 Cultures & Traditions where B95 is told
0 Mythemes Indexed
1 Sub-Motifs of Motif B95


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Source Data from Berezkin's Analytics Catalogue, if using this data please acknowledge and link to it here:
Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.



Summary of Motif

The appearance of the sphincter or buttocks is explained by the fact that a certain character burned his backside.

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


B95 has 1 other sub-motifs


B95.  The appearance of the sphincter or buttocks is explained by the fact that a certain character burned his backside.
B95A.  To punish his own backside for misbehaviour, the trickster burns it.

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Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns

MotifSimilarityMotif Summary
J12M100.00%A woman or two sisters come to two men and become wives of one of them. The other kills or tries to kill his rival or the women. As a result, the women turn into waterfowl.
J4199.75%The hero leaves for a long time. When he returns, his relative does not immediately believe that it is really him. All this time, someone has been mocking him or her, imitating the voice of the departed, saying that he has returned and/or throwing ashes in his or her face.
M6699.05%After eating certain foods frivolously or rubbing his body with his spine, the character suffers from itching, diarrhea, or an irrepressible eruption of intestinal gases.
M6598.73%trickster bakes meat obtained by trick, deception; immobilized by sticking to a tree, ground, or stone; at this time, another character (fox, wolf, coyote, birds) eats all the meat. See M53 motif.
K1J98.20%The abandoned one turns into a bird and returns home faster than the one who abandoned him.
M65B97.83%Having resorted to deception, the character kills the game, but the thieves take the loot. See M53 motif.
H5397.07%The wolf participates in the creation of the earth or is the brother of the creator and/or conqueror of the demons of the underworld. He dies and/or is considered the first to die and/or becomes the lord of the land of the dead.
L5E196.61%A woman who has become a monster pursues her own children.
M29Q96.61%See the motives in square brackets.
M65A96.48%The trees are creaking in the wind. Hearing a creak, the character climbs a tree and gets stuck. See M65 motif.

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This motif has been recorded in 5 traditions: Eastern Cree, Menominee, Winnebago, Plains Cree, Kiliwa


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