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L4A - Meat answers to the master.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
To test the loyalty of the heroine (hero), the demon demands that she eat food that humans should not eat. Usually, when the heroine reports that the food has been eaten, the demon asks where the food is, and the food answers him.Berezkin category: Adventures: Monsters and evil spirits
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
L4 has 2 other sub-motifsL4. The character consistently (almost) kills girls (rarely: his nephews or his wife's younger brothers) whom he brings to his home (usually a male character kills wives). The heroine or hero (the youngest of all) avoids the common fate, usually after discovering the captives or their remains. L4a. To test the loyalty of the heroine (hero), the demon demands that she eat food that humans should not eat. Usually, when the heroine reports that the food has been eaten, the demon asks where the food is, and the food answers him. L4b. The character learns about the violation of the prohibition to enter a certain room, as evidence of this has been preserved on the body of the heroine (hero) or on an object in her (his) hands (often blood on a key or an apple). Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of L4's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| M90A3 | 99.27% | plant grows from a killed snake or part of a snake's body. |
| M147A | 99.10% | When the foxes (wolves) meet and one of them (one of the wolves) asks when they will see each other again, the other replies that it will be at the fur market (at the furrier's, etc.). |
| M90B | 98.91% | The character was wrong when he claimed that the sun would never rise in the west or go down after midnight. |
| K56F1 | 97.33% | Five chickens (geese, etc.) must be divided among six eaters (other numbers are possible). The solution is to give each pair of participants one chicken and take two for oneself (two chickens and one person – three, two people and one chicken – also three). |
| J25A1 | 97.31% | A woman dies, but remains incorrupt and gives birth to a child in the grave. He is found and brings his mother back to life. |
| K9A | 97.31% | The punished character is suspended on a chain or metal thread between heaven and earth. |
| M114F | 97.31% | The girl has a minor physical defect. Man: The house is nice, but the pipe is crooked. Girl: But the smoke comes out well. |
| M39A4B | 97.31% | foolish woman thinks that frogs will make yarn or cloth for her, or buy yarn and throw the material into the water. |
| M39A4B1 | 97.31% | Foolish woman throws her yarn ways (into the water, into the bush) and believes that somebody with weave it |
| K75A2 | 96.62% | Appearing incognito to an authoritative figure, the hero works for him as a gardener. |
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This motif has been recorded in 16 traditions: Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai, Spain, Spaniards, Sicily, Sicilians, France, Greeks (modern), Balkarians, Bulgarians, Balkarians, Swedes, Danes, Danish, Persians, Tats, Armenians, Anatolia Turks, Kurds, Turkmen, Bashkirs, Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, Lazio)