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F10 - Teeth knocked out.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
A woman has a second mouth (usually in her vagina) with sharp teeth. A man inserts or throws a stone, bone, stick, etc. into this mouth, knocking out the teeth or extracting toothy animals from it in this way.Berezkin category: Gender and sex
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 5, Origin of human beings, ethnic groups, etiology of human anatomy, strange body configuration, ways of behavior, marriages before the establishment of the present norms
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| A32B | 97.13% | The figure or imprint of a toad or frog is visible on the lunar disc; the moon is associated with this animal. |
| L98 | 97.10% | The demon that carries off children and threatens heroes, people, etc., is the eagle owl; there is a race of owls that is hostile to humans. |
| K27XY | 97.05% | Several men (animals), each of whom can do something better than the others, work together to accomplish difficult tasks set before them by their opponents. The competition is not intended to find a worthy suitor for a girl or to get rid of an unwanted suitor. Cf. motif K27o3 (Competition between two teams). |
| H32A | 96.71% | A young woman is the embodiment of fertility; she comes to live with people, and food becomes readily available. The woman is wronged, she leaves, and the superabundance ends. |
| F64 | 96.50% | The character is presented as another person in order to mate with a close relative in the descending or (less commonly) ascending line. |
| J40B | 96.48% | After the hero comes back after a long absence and finds his parents enslaved, he tells them to demonstrate openly a lack of respect to their masters and punishes those who were cruel with them |
| J13 | 96.26% | Not one woman or girl, but two sisters (or more than two, but only two play an important role in the narrative) wander and meet an unwanted deceiver instead of a desired husband or fiancé, or encounter dangerous creatures. See motif J12. |
| J45 | 95.64% | The character extends his leg (dafla: arm; upper tanana: tail) or neck as a bridge across a water barrier. Usually, those being pursued or walking ahead cross such a bridge to the other side, while the pursuer or those walking behind fall into the water because the character removes his bridge. See motif J44. |
| F45B | 95.44% | A woman gives birth to a son conceived by (the rays or light of) the sun. |
| J59A | 95.42% | After shooting an arrow (rarely: throwing a ball), a person flies on it, behind it or in front of it, or sends another person on the flying arrow. Cf. motif J59. |
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This motif has been recorded in 48 traditions: Truk, Eastern Fayu, Losap, Pulap, Puluwat, Mortlock (incl. Satawan), Alor, Solor, Wetar, Atauru, Northern Taiwan: Atayal (Tayal; Taruko (Toda, Taokas, Torok, Taroko), Pazeh, Sedeq (Sediq, Seedeq, Sazek), Saisiyat (Saixia), Northern Munda of Kharwar branch: Birhor, Ho, Mundari, Kol, Asur (including Agaria, Kol, Birjhia), Bhumij, Bhuiya (now Aryans, originally Munda; Rahman 1955: 203), Baiga, Bhaina, Bhumia (subgroup of Baiga, incl Bharia, formerly Munda, now speak Indo-Aryan languages of neighboring groups), Juang, Bondo, Didayi (Gata'), Gutob (=Gadaba; cf Dravidian-speaking Gadaba), Maria, Muria, and other South-Central Dravidians: Binjhwar, Bacop, Bhattra, Bom, Jhoria (=Jhodia), Gadaba (in Koraput, neighbors of Munda-speaking Gadaba), Duruwa (Parji), Mehtar; Pardhan, Ainu, Udeghe, Nivkh, Forest (Upper Kolyma) Yukaghir, Chukchi, Upper Tanana (Nebesna), Tanacross, Tagish, Haida, Tsimshian, Naskapi, Montagnais, Arapaho, Teton (incl Oglala), Mandan, Plains Ojibwa, Crow, Chilkotin, Shuswap, Thompson (Nlaka'pamux), Comox, Pentlatch, Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, (Lower) Cowlitz, Takelma, Yurok, Natchez (incl Avoyel), Alabama, Koasati, Wappo, Maidu, Nisenan, Konkov, Chumash, Yokuts, Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai, Chemehuevi, Navajo, Jicarilla, Chiricahua, Hopi, Zuni, Huichol, Guajiro, Makiritare (Yecuana), Mataco