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K87B - A woman steps in bear droppings.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
A woman is picking berries, steps in bear droppings, and scolds the bears. The offended bear takes her away and marries her.Berezkin category: Adventures: Acts of heroes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
K87 has 3 other sub-motifsK87. A woman becomes the wife of an animal (rarely another non-human creature). The husband takes care of her, but the marriage ends with the murder of the husband, the woman, their offspring, the woman's relatives, the transformation of the woman herself into an animal, leading to hostility between humans and animals, etc. K87a. A forest woman receives or kidnaps a little boy and raises him to be her lover. K87a1. A demonic woman asks the baby's mother to let her hold him or secretly replaces another person who was supposed to take the child. Once she has the baby, the demon takes him away. K87b. A woman is picking berries, steps in bear droppings, and scolds the bears. The offended bear takes her away and marries her. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of K87's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| K10F | 99.61% | The character turns the children of a flying monster into ordinary eagles or owls. |
| K27Y1 | 99.39% | The character believes or pretends that arrowheads should be made of bark, coal, grass, and similar materials. |
| K1D | 99.00% | The hero's wife's brothers try to kill him by leaving him on an island. |
| B7A | 98.64% | Someone possesses water or a drink. Another character swallows what is hidden, runs away and spits out what is hidden, making the water or drink available to everyone. |
| M81B | 98.20% | The character is warned not to try to reach an arrow if it gets stuck in a tree. He breaks the ban and gets into trouble. |
| J65 | 98.06% | After the attack by enemies, a woman and her daughter remain. She rejects the marriage proposals of animal suitors and agrees to give her daughter to the heavenly deity (the Sun). The children from this marriage take revenge on their enemies. |
| M53A | 98.06% | raven gathers seals or other marine mammals around and deceives them into killing them. |
| L66 | 97.98% | To help the hero, a small animal digs an underground passage beneath the lying monster, and the hero strikes it from below. |
| K111 | 97.33% | The girl's mother consistently rejects birds and animals that propose to her daughter, but accepts the proposal of a heavenly anthropomorphic character. |
| I6A | 97.02% | The male and female of a huge bird carry different types of precipitation (for example, the eagle carries snow, and the eagle carries rain). Or (Buryats of Mongolia) the same bird carries different types of precipitation depending on whether it is angry or not. See motif i6. Traditions associated with Na-Dene languages are highlighted in italics in the list. |
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This motif has been recorded in 9 traditions: Chugach, Tutchone, Tagish, Inland Tlingit, Tahltan, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian