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L116A - Doe with golden horns.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
While chasing a roe deer (fallow deer, deer), the hero finds himself in the lair of a demon or wizard; the roe deer is an enchanted person or demon.Berezkin category: Adventures: Monsters and evil spirits
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 |
|---|---|---|
| F9F | 98.01% | Without the woman's knowledge, the demon regularly kills her suitors on their wedding night. |
| L90 | 97.41% | One lip (one fang, horn, etc.) of the creature reaches the sky, while the other drags along the ground. |
| M195 | 97.41% | The character must guess which of the two horses or cows is older. He does this by knowing the behavioural characteristics of these animals. |
| K38B | 96.99% | A snake or monster of aquatic-chthonic or indeterminate nature eats or maims the young of a bird or other flying creature – in most cases, the chicks of a huge bird. A man kills the snake (monster). See motif K38. |
| K27X3 | 96.97% | The ruler seeks to take possession of the wife or bride of a man of lower social status and, in order to get rid of him, gives him impossible tasks or secretly kills him. {Both ATU and some regional indexes (e.g., Cardigos 2006: 110) list texts that do not meet the definition of plot 465: the king's desire to take possession of the hero's wife is not explicitly stated as the reason why the king seeks to get rid of the hero}. |
| M39E | 96.80% | When reviewing the dispute, the judge asks about the secondary circumstances of the case. The offender is exposed by showing that he knows (or, on the contrary, does not know) about them. |
| M195A | 96.21% | A character sends a long object that either looks the same at both ends or is inside a small object, and asks which end of the object is the top and which is the bottom. The guesser gives the correct answer. |
| K82 | 96.21% | A man's wife or another woman tries to destroy his sister. |
| L118A | 96.13% | In order to get rid of a dangerous but foolish character, a person performs certain actions, which the character imitates, not realising that he is harming himself. |
| K38C | 96.09% | After the hero helps the bird (usually by doing good to its chicks), it takes him to the place he desires, or instructs its chicks to do so. (This does not involve movement between levels of the universe; in the Sumerian version, the bird gives the hero the ability to move with lightning speed and directs him to his goal). |
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This motif has been recorded in 32 traditions: Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai, Algeria Arabs, Songhai, Shan, Ahom, Khampti, Tjam, Ede, Jörai (Jarai), Katu (Ködu); Bru (incl. Van Kieu, Khua), Bengali, Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani), Sindhi, England, British, Bretons, 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, Slovakians, Slovaks, Latvians, Persians, Ossetians, Tats, Georgians, Armenians, Anatolia Turks, Azeris (Azerbaijanis), Kazakh, Kirghiz, Uyghur, Mongols (Khalkha), Nanai, Pipil, Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal), Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights), Luri, Bakhtiari, Kumaoni (Central Pahari), incl. Garhwali, Icelanders, Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, Lazio)