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L31A - Children carried away to the sky.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
An object descends from the sky. Children playing climb into it or stick to it, and it carries them away to the sky. See motif L31.Berezkin category: Adventures: Monsters and evil spirits
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
L31 has 2 other sub-motifsL31. People are forced against their will to follow an object, person or animal (usually sticking to it) that carries them far away (usually into water or into the sky). L31a. An object descends from the sky. Children playing climb into it or stick to it, and it carries them away to the sky. See motif L31. L31b. Upon discovering a reptile on land, people touch it or sit on it, stick to it, and it crawls away with them into the water. See motif L31. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of L31's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| H15 | 99.12% | The dead or spirits cannot hear cries when the living call them, but they can hear whispers, yawns, gurgles, etc. See motif H12. |
| M87 | 98.77% | The character comes to a place that is abandoned or seems to have been abandoned by the inhabitants. He tries to take or touch things, but invisible owners prevent him from doing so, or the things themselves hurt him. |
| M42B | 98.45% | After losing his eyes, the character makes new ones out of resin or wax, sees again (often this is an episode on the way to finding good eyes, while tar eyes do not see well). |
| M32 | 97.75% | The character swallows food or water, or his own entrails, pieces of flesh flow out and fall out of his ass. |
| K86 | 97.58% | A small (usually capricious) child is ignored, sent away from home, abandoned on the road, or given to another person for a time. As a result, the child is carried away by an animal or a spirit. |
| M41 | 97.30% | The character throws his eyes (an inhaler has a tooth) up or into the distance. At first they return to the eye sockets, but then they disappear. |
| L50 | 97.28% | The character kills travellers passing by. Usually, he does not attack them unexpectedly, but distracts their attention first. Often, he pushes his victims down somewhere. |
| F21 | 97.18% | While the character copulates with a woman, she turns into a tree or a rock. His penis gets stuck in her. |
| L72F | 97.18% | Fleeing for his life, the character throws behind him the entrails or stomach contents of an animal, which become an obstacle in the path of his pursuer. |
| K52A | 97.13% | The hero goes to the bottom of the sea for a woman. The slave pours water into the hearth in the house of the water dwellers. Hiding behind clouds of steam, the hero takes the woman away. See motif K52. |
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