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H29 - Progenitor of foreign tribes.
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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 mates with an animal. The people of a hostile tribe originate from or derive their culture from the descendants of this union, from the relatives of the animal or from the children of the woman's brothers.Berezkin category: Paradise Lost
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 |
|---|---|---|
| F46 | 98.87% | At the beginning of time, two or more men (human-animals) had only one woman. |
| L135 | 98.56% | A person leaves home and finds himself in unfamiliar places. His journey is marked by encounters with various strange creatures. In the end, he either returns home or leaves the earth for another world. (With an abundance of episodes, the story often either breaks off or does not contain the initial episodes explaining the reason for the hero's departure from home). |
| M70A | 98.53% | A character on whom an old woman defecates or whose face blows the winds pierces her from below with a sharp object. See M70 motif. |
| M70 | 97.65% | The oldest character poisons the youngest with his intestinal gases. |
| M6 | 95.95% | A young man or girl spends night in the forest. The forest partridge (Tinamus sp.) provides him or her a fire, a shelter and/or a hammock but takes them away and flies away itself when the person does something wrong |
| E21 | 95.82% | A child catches fish (with poison), or fish poison is secreted from his body. Fish or water snakes kill him. Death is avenged. |
| L82 | 95.82% | A person deliberately or accidentally burns his foot in a fire or burns himself completely; he turns into a demonic creature. See motif L9 (man with a sharp foot). |
| M29QQ | 95.82% | See the motives in square brackets. |
| B1F | 95.81% | In the era of creation, two men have a common origin, are not antagonists, and display their characteristics in a series of episodes. One is intelligent and successful, the other is simple-minded and irresponsible. |
| A22D | 95.78% | The burned character turns into a constellation or a dark spot on the Milky Way. |
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This motif has been recorded in 19 traditions: Copper, Netsilik, Caribou, Iglulik, Polar Inuit, Yana, Cuiva, Trio, Palikur, Marubo, Kuikuro, Kalapalo, Calapalo, Kamayura, Trumai, Rikbaktsa, Paresi, Caraja, Craho, Apinaye (Apinage, Apinaje), Greenland