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M1B - A caiman/crocodile carries a monkey.
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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 caiman/crocodile carries a monkey across a river. She manages to jump ashore and runs away from the caiman.Berezkin category: Adventures: Tricks and episodes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
M1 has 2 other sub-motifsM1. The character crosses a body of water on the back of a monster or animal that agrees to be a carrier but may or intends to drown or eat its passenger. M1a. The caiman transports one of the brothers or a group of brothers, who then turn into the Pleiades. It usually bites off the leg of the youngest. Cf. motif K13B. M1b. A caiman/crocodile carries a monkey across a river. She manages to jump ashore and runs away from the caiman. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of M1's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| H4A | 95.86% | People no longer rejuvenate (usually, they do not change their skin), because they were disturbed at the moment of renewal or were not recognised as the same person after renewal. See motif H4. |
| B77C | 95.26% | A snake-like creature pushes the sky away from the earth. See motif B77. |
| M44A | 95.26% | The character discovers that someone is stealing game or fish from his trap, mountain, etc. or ravages his garden, field; he or his messengers wait and catch the thief [magical tales clearly of European origin (e.g. Chamacoco, Wilbert, Simoneau 1987a, No. 121) are not included]. The kidnappers are the first people to get out of the ground, the first men. |
| G23A | 93.15% | Parts of the body and organs of living beings are transformed into various plants (teeth into corn, testicles into yams, etc.). |
| H9B | 92.39% | People have become like plants, which, although mortal, live on in their descendants (shoots). |
| M44B | 92.05% | The character discovers that someone is stealing game or fish from his trap, mountain, etc. or ravages his garden, vegetable garden, field; he or his messengers wait and catch the thief. The kidnappers are women, or the aquatic animal is the kidnapper, but when caught, it gives the hero a woman. |
| M7 | 91.74% | The character goes to the lower world, to the sky, to the country on the horizon, etc. and waits for someone to give him a ride to his goal. Usually, some animals/birds or celestial bodies follow by, and the last (often the Sun or Month) delivers. |
| I125 | 91.29% | Hyades (sometimes, possibly, Pleiades or Orion) – jaw or severed head of a large animal or anthropomorphic creature. |
| E27 | 91.08% | People arise from drops of blood from a wounded anthropomorphic creature. |
| M115 | 89.31% | The character kills an animal that is dangerous to him by cunning. Relatives or friends of the killed animal find out about this and come to take revenge. The character escapes. |
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This motif has been recorded in 4 traditions: Batak (Toba, Dairi), Nicobarese, Tariana, Mocovi; Kechua of Santiago del Estero with probable Guaikuruan substratum; Abipon