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H18 - Released animals, A1421.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Hunted animals were concentrated in one place. A certain character creates them there or allows them to scatter.Berezkin category: Paradise Lost
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
H18 has 2 other sub-motifsH18. Hunted animals were concentrated in one place. A certain character creates them there or allows them to scatter. H18a. The owner of the hunting animals hides them underground; one of the first ancestors turns into a puppy, which is picked up by the owner's children, and releases the animals. See motif H18. H18b. Having received livestock from supernatural characters, a person (usually due to violating a prohibition on looking, shouting, etc.) immediately loses all or most of the animals (they go into the water, into the sky, scatter, etc.). Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of H18's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| K22B | 94.84% | The inhabitants of another world are attacked by certain enemies. A human helps them to defeat these enemies, because these creatures are not dangerous to humans. See motif K22. |
| F9A | 94.02% | There are teeth, blades or sharp stones in a woman's vagina or on the inside of her thighs; the vagina is a toothy mouth. (Only texts with a focus on authenticity are taken into account, not anecdotes). |
| L34 | 93.92% | The character kills or maims the enemy by setting fire to their clothes, mask, headdress, hair, or an object behind their back. |
| J12 | 93.91% | A girl or two sisters wander, usually in search of a suitable groom or husband who has left or lives far away. Along the way or upon reaching their destination, they encounter false suitors. (Traditions in which two heroines travel rather than one are highlighted in bold (motif j13). |
| L15A | 93.49% | The character's vulnerable spot is located on the surface of the body, but not in vital internal organs. |
| J13 | 93.49% | 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. |
| K22 | 93.32% | The inhabitants of a distant land, who differ from (ordinary) people, occasionally fight off enemies of a non-human nature who attack them. |
| M42 | 93.07% | The character takes his eyes out of his orbits and loses them. He usually regains his eyes later, makes new ones, takes away from another character, etc. See the M41 motif. |
| I1 | 92.94% | Creatures that cause or embody rain and/or thunderstorms are birds or winged anthropomorphic characters. {Traditions in which birds are associated with thunderstorms and rain, but Thunder itself is not a bird, are marked with an asterisk (*). |
| J44 | 92.93% | The hero lures the enemy onto a rickety bridge. The enemy falls into the water, into the abyss (see motif J46). See motif J52. |
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This motif has been recorded in 91 traditions: Shilluk, Anuak, Masai, Songe (Kisonge), Bena-Matembo, Mongo (Mongo-Nkundu), Nkundu, Ngelima, Ngombe, (Ba)Tetela), Pende, Wu(Kusu), (Ba)Mbala (incl Saie, Kwilu), Fang (Pangwe), Eton, Bafia, Batanga, Benga, Bube (Bubi), Buheba, Yaunde (Ewondo), Yebekolo, Koko, Bulu, Beti (Beti-Bulu), Sekiani, Eghap, Hadza, Trans-New Guinea and unclassified Papuan groups of Irian Jaya: Mejprat, Arandai-Bintuni, Inanwatan-Berau, Papua of Gelvink (Cenderawasih) Bay, Kamoró, Marind Anim, Sawi, Mafore; Korowai; Kwerba; Momina, Eipo, Yale, Awyu, Melanesians of southeastern New Guinea: Mekeo, Motu, Sinagoro, Koita (Koitapu), Mukawa (Are), Wagawaga, Taupota, Awaiama, Gelaria, Goodenough Bay, Bartle Bay, Wedau (Wamira village), Shan, Ahom, Khampti, Chin-Naga: Ao, Mao, Sema, Zeme, Kolren, Kom, Lhota, Rengma, Angami, Kabui, Tangkhul, Koirenf, Garo (Atchik), Kachari (Bodo, incl. Lalung), Dimasa, Tripuri, Riang (of Tripura), Khami, Riga, Mori, Rawang, Dulong; Anong, Drung, Kachin (Singpho), Chak, Kashmiri, Lavrung, Jiarong; Qiang (incl rGyalrong), Lepcha, Greeks (modern), Balkarians, Wakhi, Ishkashimi (including Sanglich), Munji, Iranian literary tradition (including Avesta, Pahlevi scripts, Sah-nameh, Marzban-nameh); Zoroastrians of Iran, Indian Parsees, Zoroastrianism, Hui (Dungan) of Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan (Dungan texts from Southern and Eastern China are clustered with the Chinese ones), Buryats: Western (cis Baikal), Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots), Khakas, Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit, Altaians, Nganasans, Central Yakuts (Sakha), Tungus (Evenki): Baikal region, Evenks, Evens (Lamuts), Negidal, Chukchi, Chipewyan, Inland Tlingit, Tanana, Beaver, Iglulik, Lenape (Delaware), Wawenock, Abenaki, Penobscot, Menominee, Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga), Blackfoot, Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina), Yuchi, Arapaho, Mandan, Wichita; Spiro Mound iconography, Tonkawa, Kiowa, Kiowa Apache, Comanche, Gros Ventre, Crow, Nez Perce, Oregon Athabaskans: Lower Umpqua, Tututni (incl Joshua), Upper Coquille, Galice, Tolowa, Hupa, Chilula, Caddo, Natchez (incl Avoyel), Wailaki, Mattole, Lassik, Sinkyone, Cahto, Yuki (Yuki proper, Coastal Yuki, Huchnob), Sierra Miwok, Tubatulabal, Northern Paiute (=Paviotso), Western Shoshone, Gosiute, Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai, Jicarilla, Chiricahua, Hopi, Zuni, Yuma proper (Quechan), Mohave, Maricopa, Pima, Tequistlatec, Tzotzil, Tzeltal, Kekchi; Mopan, Yanomamo (Yanoama): Yanomam, Yanomami, Cañari, Kofan, Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar), Aguaruna, Huambiza, Letuama, Tanimuca, Ufaina, Yahuna, Kabiyari, Yukuna (Yucuna), Tenetehara, Mundurucu, Curuaia, Rikbaktsa, Kayabi, Nambikwara, Paresi, Umotina (Umutina), Chorote, Ofaie, Selknam, Biloxi