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C16 - Products of labour become animals, E161, E168.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Contrary to human desire, processed skins, tools, and (meat) food (again) turn into (those) animals (from whose body parts they were made). Cf. motif M84.Berezkin category: Disasters
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 8, Queer and monstrous beings, creatures, objects and loci, folk beliefs related to particular phenomena and objects
C16 has 1 other sub-motifsC16. Contrary to human desire, processed skins, tools, and (meat) food (again) turn into (those) animals (from whose body parts they were made). Cf. motif M84. C16a. The offended mistress of animals or fish takes them and food supplies away. See motif H32A. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of C16's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| I23 | 96.55% | The door of the house opens and slams shut by itself, crushing those entering or leaving. See motif I22. |
| F83 | 93.32% | The character does something forbidden and indecent in a place hidden from prying eyes, and then asks people what's new. They reply that there is no news – except that so-and-so (the character) did such-and-such. |
| K27O3 | 93.30% | Two groups of characters compete in overcoming trials or play a game, divided into two teams (at least two episodes with different characters on both sides). The participants are either anthropomorphic but possess different unusual abilities, or they are different animals (natural phenomena, elements, etc.). Cf. motif K27xy (Characters with different properties in opposing camps). |
| K27A | 92.65% | Test: spend the night in the cold (the antagonist tries to destroy the hero in this way). See motif K27. Compare motif M35: two zoomorphic characters compete to see which of them will sit out the night in the cold. |
| K27Z | 92.11% | A character gains power over another by winning a game of chance or an intellectual game (not a sporting competition). The motif includes all texts with motif K27z4. |
| K21 | 91.99% | A girl ends up in the sky and gets married there. |
| K27C | 91.97% | Test: to remain alive when coming into contact with piercing, cutting, or crushing instruments. See motif K27. |
| M49 | 91.72% | The hero meets a character from the enemy camp and, taking on his form, penetrates enemies. Usually, the hero kills the person he meets and puts on his skin. |
| B42H1 | 91.60% | In the plot of cosmic hunting, one of the astral objects is identified with an arrow or bullet, and it is emphasised that it struck an animal or three animals, which are identified with Orion's Belt. {In the Khoisan variants, it is emphasised that the arrow did not reach its target}. |
| H36FF | 91.24% | The raven (crow) or other large bird of prey tries to kill people and/or is responsible for the fact that humans (tigres: domestic animals) are mortal or susceptible to disease. |
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This motif has been recorded in 39 traditions: Ontong Java, Nukumanu, Takuu, Nukuria, Kuki, Chiru, Falam (Hallam), Chin (Meitei =Manipuri, Khami, =Kumi), Lakher, Mizo (Lushei), Anal, Pawi (Lai), Purum, Koireng, Milhiem, Kolhen, Mru, Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India, Greeks (modern), Balkarians, Latvians, Estonians, Western Sami, 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), Abkhaz, Abkhazians, Ossetians, Georgians, Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks), Forest Nenets, Tuvinians of Tuva, Tuvans, Khakas, Southern Selkups, Tungus (Evenki): Baikal region, Evenks, Nivkh, Chukchi, Chugach, Tutchone, Tahltan, Tsetsaut, Koyukon, Gwich'in (Kuchin, Loucheux), Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Plains Ojibwa, Chilkotin, Shuswap, Thompson (Nlaka'pamux), Western Sahaptin (Upper Cowlitz, Klikitat, Tenino, Umatilla, Yakima, Wallawalla), Nez Perce, Oregon Athabaskans: Lower Umpqua, Tututni (incl Joshua), Upper Coquille, Galice, Tolowa, Flathead, Shasta; Chimariko, Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet, Chechens