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F50 - Children born multiple times.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Children have the ability to leave their mother's womb and return to it again.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 |
|---|---|---|
| J6 | 99.75% | A pregnant woman is killed (and eaten). Twins are taken from her womb, who are usually also destined to be eaten, but they escape, live (secretly) in the house of their antagonists, and take revenge on them. |
| F34A | 99.36% | All women of the community of the first ancestors or all Amazons have a common lover of non-human nature or simultaneously mate with animals of a certain species, summoning them with a conventional signal. |
| H21 | 99.11% | The character controls animals or fish; a boy, young man or girl knows his secret or serves as bait themselves; another character forces the boy (girl) to reveal the secret and/or help him in the same way that he or she helped the first character, or leads the boy to go fishing but kills him, or the boy himself starts hunting, breaking the rules; as a result, the boy or girl is killed or carried away by animals or fish. See motif H18. |
| B22 | 98.65% | The character left under the tree is offended by those who climbed up the tree (usually they do not share their food with him or her). In retaliation, he or she knocks down the tree. The events described are of cosmic proportions. |
| L7 | 98.43% | While chasing a person, spirit, monster or beast, mistakenly chases after a large two-legged object passing by, usually an animal. |
| L7A | 98.23% | A character who sticks to another creature and refuses to let go, first sticking to a human, then to an animal, or first sticking to an animal, then to a bird. |
| J15B | 98.22% | While travelling, a woman finds herself in the house of a frog or toad. See motif J15. |
| L5D | 98.19% | The rolling head suffers from thirst. See motif L5. |
| M29W | 98.12% | As a result of their stupidity or antisocial behavior, a jaguar (puma, ocelot) dies or suffers damage. See the motives in square brackets. The character is named if it is a puma or ocelot; otherwise, a jaguar. |
| F32 | 98.09% | Small children or a single infant, who temporarily transform into adult men and/or emerge from their mother's womb, or a snake living in a woman's womb, climb a tree and help her gather fruit, bark, tree mushrooms, etc.; or a father discovers his daughter's connection with a snake when he climbs a tree to gather fruit for her. |
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This motif has been recorded in 27 traditions: Bemba (Wemba, Babemba; incl Ambo, Lala, Lamba, Bisa), Holoholo, Kaonde, Lingala, (Ba)Ngala, Ntomba, Kioque, (Ki)Bangi, Bolia, Balolo, Boloki, (Ba)Akwa, (U)Poto, Duala (Douala), Basa (Basaá), Kwiri (Kweli), Isubu, Hawaii, Tuscarora, Sicuani, Trio, Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar), Aguaruna, Huambiza, Wanana, Tucano proper, Pira-Tapuya, Arapaso, Cubeo, Tariana, Urubu (Urubu-Kaapor), Tenetehara, Parintintin; Villa Bella (tribal affiliation unknown), Suruí, Gaviâo, Zoro, Arua, Cinta Larga, Kuikuro, Kalapalo, Calapalo, Kamayura, Paresi, Bororo, Umotina (Umutina), Caraja, Canela: Ramkokamekra, Apaniekra, Craho, Apinaye (Apinage, Apinaje), Manao, Katawishi (Teffe lake); groups of uncertain affiliation mostly from Rio Jamunda, Congo