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M199E - Horse between the legs, ATU 1082.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
A man and his opponent compete to see who can carry a horse. The opponent struggles to lift the horse, while the man rides it, saying that he easily carried it between his legs.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 |
|---|---|---|
| I87D | 99.93% | In the past, giants inhabited the earth. One of them finds a tiny human being and brings him to his father or mother. They usually say that such people will replace the current giants. |
| K56A4C | 99.86% | A person is tasked with washing something black until it is white or something white until it is black (yarn, clothing, a board, etc.). |
| L100F1 | 99.86% | A worker (the young son of the master) arranges things so that the food prepared by the mistress for her lover, who is working in the field, goes to the master, and when the master goes to the man, not knowing that he is his wife's lover, the man thinks that the husband is coming to kill him and flees. |
| G25 | 99.86% | Cereal seeds are scattered across the world, fell to the ground, now people grow bread. |
| I132B | 99.86% | A girl comes to the Sun to become his wife, but at the last moment undergoes a metamorphosis (usually turning into a bird). |
| I7B | 99.86% | Lightning – a crack in the sky through which the heavens are visible for a moment. |
| K102C | 99.86% | The enemy seizes the object that makes the hero invulnerable and kills him. The hero is revived. Changing his appearance, he provokes the enemy to put the magical object on the ground, seizes it again and kills the enemy. |
| K150 | 99.86% | A magical horse (rarely: dog) eats (hot) coals, nails, etc., or attempts are made to feed these to the horse. |
| K38E2 | 99.86% | Returning from the underworld to earth, the princess places the objects surrounding her (clothes, house, "kingdom") into a small object (egg, ball of yarn, etc.), which she takes with her. |
| K56AC | 99.86% | A girl finds herself in a forest hut, where a bear arrives. He orders her to make him a bed out of stones and logs. |
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This motif has been recorded in 29 traditions: Poles, Czech, Czechs, Slovakians, Slovaks, Hungarians, Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians, Moldovans, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Finns, Karelians, Vepsians, Western Sami, Eastern Sami (including Skolts), Western Ukrainians, Byelarusians, Belarusians, Ossetians, Tats, Kalmyk, Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars, Bashkirs, Mari (Cheremis), Mordvins, Chuvash, Udmurt, Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam, Eastern Ukrainians, Northern Ukrainians, Lutsi (Ludza), Russian Federation