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M153B - Wolf riding.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
The wolf is killed or maimed after agreeing to a domestic animal's offer to ride it.Berezkin category: Adventures: Tricks and episodes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 11, Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| K110 | 99.54% | The character is asked to retrieve treasure from the bottom of a pond. He does not understand that he is only seeing a reflection and that the treasure is located above. |
| L9E | 99.54% | The anthropomorphic character has a nose resembling a copper or iron beak. |
| M198A1 | 99.48% | Three characters sequentially and without apparent reason determine the characteristics of an object or person they have not seen. |
| K80C3 | 99.26% | Before his death, a man asks his murderer to tell his pregnant wife to give their newborn a certain name. Upon hearing the unusual name of the child, a powerful figure begins to investigate the case, and the murderer confesses to his crime. (All texts containing motifs K80c3 and K80c4 also contain the more general motif K80c) |
| I87 | 99.18% | The characters use an object belonging to the world of giants (a skull, an animal shoulder blade, a mitten) as a shelter. Cf. I87C: animals use an object belonging to the world of humans (a skull, a mitten, a sieve, etc.) as a shelter. |
| L10A | 99.14% | A demonic character approaches a man's campfire. The man leaves a log in his place and hides. The character throws himself on the log, mistaking it for a sleeping man; usually, the hunter kills or wounds the demon. |
| J32E | 99.12% | Every time a mare foals, the foal is stolen. The hero finds out who is doing this. |
| K148 | 99.12% | Every night or every year, a mare gives birth to a foal, and every time someone steals it. |
| M75B2 | 99.03% | bird tries in vain to prevent the marriage, which she learned was inevitable when the future spouses were still children. |
| I87AC | 99.01% | Something huge gets into a person's eye, which he mistakes for a speck of dust. Usually, a bird carries away an animal or fish and drops a bone into the man's eye. It is difficult to find and remove (to do this, they get into a boat and float it inside the eye, throw a net into the eye, pull it out with oxen, etc.). |
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This motif has been recorded in 15 traditions: Bulgarians, Balkarians, Croatians, Croats; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians), Yazgulami, Tajik, Baluch, Pashto, Persians, Bukhara Arabs, Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin, Kumyk, Terekemen, Kara Kalpak, Buryats: Western (cis Baikal), Daur (Daghur), Tuvinians of Tuva, Tuvans, Buryats: Eastern (trans Baikal), i.e. Khori