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M42A - Berry eyes
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Summary of Motif
The character (usually after losing his own eyes) inserts seeds or berries into his eye sockets and sees again.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
M42 has 3 other sub-motifsM42. The character takes his eyes out of his orbits and loses them. He usually regains his eyes later, makes new ones, takes away from another character, etc. See the M41 motif. M42a. The character (usually after losing his own eyes) inserts seeds or berries into his eye sockets and sees again. M42b. 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). M42c. Falling off a cliff and breaking his leg, the character eats his bone marrow. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of M42's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| B75B1 | 98.55% | The character pushes his mother-in-law or wife into a hollow, and she turns into the creaking of trees or an echo. |
| E30 | 98.33% | A man has no wife or a woman has no husband, and uses a wooden substitute as a spouse. |
| K8C5 | 98.06% | A zoomorphic character no larger than a fox allows itself to be swallowed by a bear and kills it by tearing it apart from the inside. |
| F67 | 97.31% | An old woman lives with her (adopted) daughter, niece or daughter-in-law. She (supposedly) turns into a man, marries a girl or tries to do so. |
| M84B | 96.72% | An animal, bird or fish that is killed and eaten comes to life after its bones are thrown into the water. See M84 motif. |
| H22 | 96.62% | Large game animals did not have a sense of smell. They acquired it and began to flee from hunters after someone created olfactory organs for them or gave them a strong smell to smell. Cf. motif H22A. |
| M53D | 96.18% | The character pretends to be enemies coming; when people run away in fear, the character takes what the deceived people owned. |
| H15 | 95.41% | The dead or spirits cannot hear cries when the living call them, but they can hear whispers, yawns, gurgles, etc. See motif H12. |
| I112 | 95.40% | The boat is a living creature with a mouth, a fish. |
| F65C | 95.26% | A man pretends to be dead (in order to marry his daughter or to be able to eat the meat of hunted animals alone). One of his younger children recognises their (adoptive) father or notices that the supposed dead man is alive (he runs away from the funeral pyre, laughs, etc.). |
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This motif has been recorded in 14 traditions: Negidal, Kerek, Eyak, Blackfoot, Shuswap, Thompson (Nlaka'pamux), Lushootseed (Puget Sound: Puyallup, Nisqualmi, Snuqualmi, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Skagit), Nez Perce, Tillamook, Kalapuya, Takelma, Zuni, Rikbaktsa, Caraja