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J5 - Brothers as victims.
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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 role of the victim is played by two or more brothers (friends). See motif J4.Berezkin category: Avenger heroes: The amerinday cycle
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| I105 | 97.68% | One of the constellations is associated with the hand (with five marked fingers). |
| J39 | 97.47% | The antagonist makes the woman his slave. Other characters secretly come to her and kill a small animal or bird for her. The antagonist suspects that the woman could not have caught the game herself, but she insists that she did. |
| L97 | 97.46% | Seeing a character who is unable to move (nailed to the ground, his lower body rooted to the ground, petrified, completely absent), the hero himself manages to avoid a similar fate. |
| F28C | 97.25% | A woman masturbates with the penis of a large animal that one of the men killed while hunting. |
| I93 | 97.15% | The Milky Way – the backbone, support, pillar of the sky or world. |
| B44D | 97.10% | Night and day alternate because the slain beast was black and white, spotted. |
| I37E | 97.10% | Tree mushrooms cry out like people. |
| K27V | 97.10% | The character must hit the bird with an arrow or a stone. (Cf. motif K27M, where it is not the accuracy of the archer that is important, but the unusual appearance of the creature that needs to be caught). |
| L1C | 97.10% | Those fleeing from the monstrous bear ascend to the sky and turn into stars. |
| M29D | 97.10% | See the motives in square brackets. |
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Map of Motif Dispersal
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This motif has been recorded in 21 traditions: Marathi (incl. Bhamta; incl. Mumbai area), Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz, Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks), Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga), Winnebago, Teton (incl Oglala), Iowa, Wichita; Spiro Mound iconography, Shuswap, Quinault, Alcea, Flathead, Yokuts, Northern Foothills Yokuts (Chukchansi, Dumna, Kechayi), Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai, Serrano, Diegueño: Ipai, Tipai, Kamia (Kumeai), Yuma proper (Quechan), Mohave, Maricopa, Papago, Quiche, Achí, Cakchiquel, Pocomchi, Pocomam, Mocovi; Kechua of Santiago del Estero with probable Guaikuruan substratum; Abipon