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L17A2 - Rival with an eye on her forehead.

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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.

Summary of Motif

Instead of a beautiful woman, a man takes a devil with an odd number of eyes.

Berezkin category: Adventures: Monsters and evil spirits

This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures

L17 has 4 other sub-motifs L17.  Mouth and eyes of an anthropomorphic creature on the chest, no head. L17a.  A character or creature has an eye or a second pair of eyes on the back of the head or on the back. Cf. motif L17b, "mouth on the back of the head". L17a1.  Characters with a sequentially increasing number of eyes follow the hero or heroine. He or she puts the eyes to sleep one by one, but forgets about the last one. L17a2.  Instead of a beautiful woman, a man takes a devil with an odd number of eyes. L17b.  A character or creature has a second face or a second mouth on the back of its head.  Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of L17's motifs?

Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns

Motif	Similarity	Motif Summary
I84	98.20%	The Milky Way – ski tracks.
B64B	97.98%	Two types of fish shoot arrows at each other. Since then, the fish have had many small bones in their bodies, or some of their bones have split in two.
M94	97.73%	One character invites the other to roll down the mountain to destroy him. Cf. Motive L42C.
M94A1	96.85%	By stupidity or negligence, a zoomorphic character rolls down a mountain and as a result dies or suffers damage (attacks the edge, falls into the water, etc.).
B64D	93.84%	Certain bones in the bodies of living creatures (usually birds and fish) are arrows shot into them.
E9I4	93.66%	Before meeting the hero, his beloved (wife, helper) takes the form of a crane.
K63	93.13%	A man comes to people who hunt humans or catch fish-people. For them, these are wild animals or fish.
I56	92.65%	Moving between worlds, the same living person is visible to some and invisible to others.
B109A	91.29%	Originally, the (human) bear lived in the sky, then descended to earth (and became a bear).
M60B1	91.29%	The crow promises to cure the fish, and eats it herself.

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Map of Motif Dispersal

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Terrain Minimal Countries

This motif has been recorded in 6 traditions: Southern Selkups, Northern Selkups, Central Yakuts (Sakha), Nanai, Nivkh, Aleuts

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