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J47A1 - Goats – owners of food.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
The character enters a house where goats live. He secretly eats the food he finds there, but is eventually discovered.Berezkin category: Avenger heroes: The amerinday cycle
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
J47 has 3 other sub-motifsJ47. A character climbs up to the sky using a rope, ladder, etc., or climbs a tree or rock, or descends from the sky to the ground, or rises to the ground from the underworld. Another character climbs after them, but the rope or ladder breaks or is cut, and the character falls. J47a. A plant (usually not a mighty tree, but a legume) grows unusually fast, and a character climbs it to reach the sky. J47a1. The character enters a house where goats live. He secretly eats the food he finds there, but is eventually discovered. J47b. When a character runs away from a pursuer, a strong rope (chain, etc.) is lowered (thrown) to him. A rotten rope is lowered to the pursuer, it breaks, and the pursuer crashes (drowns). Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of J47's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| A32M | 100.00% | The moon is called the "Gypsy sun". |
| A35B | 100.00% | The character tries to cover the moon with resin (so that it shines less brightly). |
| B123 | 100.00% | A fly lands on the chest of the crucified Jesus. His persecutors, who intended to drive a nail into his heart, do not do so, believing that the nail has already been driven in. |
| 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. |
| C32 | 100.00% | Demonic characters will make a ship out of nail clippings. |
| 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 7 traditions: Estonians, Setu, Western Ukrainians, Byelarusians, Belarusians, Eastern Ukrainians, Northern Ukrainians, Russian Federation