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K72A - Prohibition on lighting fires.
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Summary of Motif
The king notices that his prohibition on lighting fires at night has been violated.Berezkin category: Adventures: Acts of heroes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
K72 has 1 other sub-motifsK72. A character of high status meets or marries three (less often two or four) women. One (promises to bear and) bears him a son (children) with unusual qualities, the other two (promise to engage in and) engage in crafts or housekeeping, or intend to marry men of lower status. K72a. The king notices that his prohibition on lighting fires at night has been violated. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of K72's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| M170A | 99.20% | The predator accuses the herbivore of sin and eats it. |
| L72I | 98.91% | Fleeing for his life, the character throws soap behind him, which turns into an obstacle for his pursuer (a slippery mountain, river, etc.). |
| B104B | 98.58% | A woman refuses to share bread with Jesus, who has come to her, and he turns her into a woodpecker. |
| K130 | 98.52% | A woman (rarely: a man) asks who is the most beautiful of all and receives the answer that she (he) is. One day she (he) is told that someone else is more beautiful. |
| K120A5 | 98.39% | To obtain a woman, a man lures her onto a ship (boat, flying machine, etc.) and takes her away. |
| M206 | 98.30% | A guard (nobleman) agrees to let a man pass to an authoritative figure on condition that he gives him half of the expected reward. The man asks for a beating as a reward or expected it from the outset. |
| K56AB | 98.24% | A girl marries a monster. On their wedding night, he orders her to take off her shirt, and she orders him to take off his skin. The girl survives, and the monster becomes handsome – usually because she has more shirts (or skins worn in advance) than he does. |
| K22AA | 98.22% | There is a country whose inhabitants are migratory birds that live with us in the summer and turn into people when they fly away to their own country. |
| K155B | 98.18% | A girl lets down her hair, which another character uses to climb up to her. |
| M134C | 98.18% | A zoomorphic character climbs into a cellar (pantry, garden, etc.) and eats so much that he cannot get out. |
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This motif has been recorded in 21 traditions: Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai, Arabs of Iraq, Iraqi, Arabs of Egypt, Tiv, Bamum (Bamun), Mungaka (Mgaka, Bali), Beba, Anaguta, Bete (Mbete, Karang), Ekoi, Nyang, Vute (Wute), Jukun, Chamba, Bamileke, Kwotto, Kirri; Denya (Nyang), Portuguese, Portugal, 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, Greeks (modern), Balkarians, Bulgarians, Balkarians, Macedonians, Balkarians, Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians, Moldovans, Albanians, Balkarians, Lithuanians, Tajik, Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi, Tats, Armenians, Anatolia Turks, Kurds, Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars, Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, Lazio), Russian Federation