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J32A - At night by his father's grave, ATU 530.
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Summary of Motif
When dying, a person orders that someone spend the night at his grave or bring something to the grave.Berezkin category: Avenger heroes: The amerinday cycle
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
J32 has 7 other sub-motifsJ32. Someone regularly steals livestock (horses, sheep, etc.) or crops (apples, hay, peas, flowers, etc.). Those who undertake to guard them (usually the older brothers) fail to catch the thief, and only the hero (usually the younger brother) discovers him. J32a. When dying, a person orders that someone spend the night at his grave or bring something to the grave. J32a1. But at night someone tramples the field, steals hay, etc. The hero learns that it is horses doing this. J32b. In order to accomplish what he wants, the hero prolongs the night by changing the behaviour of the character on whom the alternation of day and night depends. J32c. At night, a demonic character comes to the grave of the deceased, intending to harm him. J32d. The girl will be won by the one who, on horseback or by some other means, quickly reaches a hard-to-reach place (the top of a tower, a mountain, the upper floor of a palace, the top steps of a staircase, a bridge, the bottom of a chasm, jumps over a moat, etc.). Usually, the girl herself is located where the suitor must climb or (rarely) descend. In Italian versions, the hero wins tournaments. J32e. Every time a mare foals, the foal is stolen. The hero finds out who is doing this. J32f. While standing guard, the hero discovers who is stealing fruit (usually apples) from the garden. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of J32's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| I92A | 99.77% | A person who jumps or steps over a rainbow changes their gender. |
| N18 | 99.73% | fairy-tale text ends with a formula stating that the narrator received food, drinks, money or other real world items from the characters described, but lost them against their own free will because of meeting dogs or people (robbers, boys, children or a neighbor). |
| I35A1 | 99.54% | The character claims the role of the thunder god and imitates him. |
| K100A | 99.42% | Setting off on a journey, a young man releases a caught fish or animal, or he or his father does someone a favour. As a reward for their help, a person or creature in the guise of a stranger or animal comes to the young man, becomes his companion and protector. |
| N2 | 99.28% | Fabulous and epic texts start from the beginning, which states that animals were performing human social or economic functions at that time. |
| L96A | 99.28% | A person sighs, after which a character named Oh, Uh, Hey-way, etc. appears. |
| K119E | 99.22% | The poor young man who was helped by an animal assistant, who presented him to the king as a rich man, is a miller or a miller's son. |
| N27 | 99.20% | Bird milk (variant: chicken, pigeon, hawkish, etc.) milk is mentioned in fairy tales, riddles, paroemias and conspiracies as something very rare and difficult to obtain or non-existent actually. |
| K67D | 99.15% | The worker (rarely – the husband) annoys the master (wife) so much that he or she decides to run away, taking his or her property with him or her. The worker hides in a sack (chest) with his or her property and ends up back where he or she started. |
| I95 | 99.07% | The Pleiades are a sieve or riddle for sifting agricultural products. See motif I95. |
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This motif has been recorded in 41 traditions: Arabs of Iraq, Iraqi, Poles, Czech, Czechs, Greeks (modern), Balkarians, Bulgarians, Balkarians, Serbs, Monte Negro, Balkarians, Latvians, Livonians, Estonians, Setu, Karelians, Vepsians, Western Sami, Western Ukrainians, Byelarusians, Belarusians, Russians: Central part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, Smolensk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Vyatka, Perm, Kazan provinces), Yagnobi, Tajik, Baluch, Persians, Abkhaz, Abkhazians, Ossetians, Ingush, Nogai, Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz, Georgians, Armenians, Kalmyk, Crimean Tatars, Karaims, Anatolia Turks, Azeris (Azerbaijanis), Talysh, 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), Mari (Cheremis), Mordvins, Chuvash, Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks), Tuvinians of Tuva, Tuvans, Chechens, Parya of Gissar (Hisor) Valley (Tajikistan), Egypt