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I82F - Venus – Wolf Star.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
(Evening) Venus is associated with a predatory beast, usually a she-wolf.Berezkin category: Supernatural objects, objects and creatures
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 2, Moon spots, stars, constellations
I82 has 10 other sub-motifsI82a. The Morning and/or Evening Star – a male character. I82b. The Morning and/or Evening Star – a female character. I82c. Venus or an unidentified star in the eastern and/or western sky – the wife of the Moon. See motif I82b. I82c1. The Moon has two wives (usually the Morning Star and the Evening Star). With the caring one, he grows fat, with the other, he starves and grows thin. I82d. The Morning and Evening Stars are contrasted as man and woman. See motifs I82a, I82b. I82e. It is said that Venus or another star sold her mother or father in order to adorn herself luxuriously and dress up. I82f. (Evening) Venus is associated with a predatory beast, usually a she-wolf. I82g. Venus or another star (Arcturus, Sirius, etc.) is called the Shepherd's Star (the star of the Shepherd, Sheepherder, Cowherd, Swineherd, etc.). I82h. The name of Venus sounds like Cholpan, Cholbon, Tsolmon, etc. (čol- 'to sparkle, to shine' [Vámbéri 1879: 155]). I82i. The name of the object in the night sky (usually Venus) sounds like Zukhra, Zahra, Zura, etc. I82j. Venus-man or another star is the husband of the Moon-woman. See motif I82a. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of I82's motifs? |
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| B124 | 100.00% | Ever since a piece of flesh was torn from a person's foot, a hollow has formed between the toe and the heel. |
| B49B | 100.00% | In the past, cows had more teats on their udders than they do now. |
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| F101 | 100.00% | With the help of magic, a rival or the spouse's mother tries to prevent a woman from giving birth. |
| F57 | 100.00% | A girl or her father (rarely: mother) picks a plant (usually a flower) and as a result encounters a character with a non-human appearance and/or inhabiting the underworld. The girl becomes the character's wife. In some cases, the picked plant is the character's hair, but more often there is no direct association of this kind. |
| F87B | 100.00% | A snake crawls onto the clothes of a bathing girl, climbs down in exchange for a promise to marry him, and takes her to the underwater world. She is happy there and gives birth to children. Together with them, she visits her relatives. They call the snake out of the water and kill it. After that, the wife transforms her children and/or herself into plants. |
| H52A | 100.00% | Returning from the land of immortality, a person must not touch the ground. However, he dismounts from his horse to help an old man (old woman). Death, who has taken the form of an old man, immediately kills him. Rarely: at the last moment, the hero decides not to perform actions that are fatal for him. |
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This motif has been recorded in 13 traditions: Germans: North (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg, Pommern, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen, Brandenburg, Rügen, Poles, Kashubians, Czech, Czechs, Serbs, Monte Negro, Balkarians, Slovenians, Slovenes, Lithuanians, Western Ukrainians, Byelarusians, Belarusians, Prussians, Eastern Ukrainians, Northern Ukrainians, Russian Federation