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M57D3 - Wind donor
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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 person receives a reward from a character who is associated with the wind. Cf. Motive K175 (“The wind carried away the flour”).Berezkin category: Adventures: Tricks and episodes
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 9, Identification of protagonists of the stories with particular animals or persons with particular qualities
M57 has 11 other sub-motifsM57a. Instead of the usual secretions from the human body, beads, flowers, gold and other valuables pour in. M57a1. When a beautiful woman walks on the ground, jewels appear under her feet, flowers bloom, etc. M57a2. Instead of common body discharges a a man urinates, spits, etc. beads, flowers, gold and other valuables; valuables are produced by the very presence of particular male person. See motif m57a M57a3. Instead of common body discharges a a woman urinates, spits, etc. beads, flowers, gold and other valuables; valuables are produced by the very presence of particular female person. See motif m57a M57b. Beads or metals are the bodily secretions of a deity. M57c. An animal (donkey, bull, horse, goat, bear, leopard) or inanimate object makes gold or food stand out, or a character makes others believe that this is the case. M57c1. A man fights a bear or (Malayali) leopard and makes another person believe that this animal is defecating with gold. M57d. A person consistently receives magical items that bring wealth. Others replace them or take them away. A person returns what has been taken - usually by receiving another wonderful object (baton, whip) that hits the kidnappers. M57d1. bird consistently gives a person magical objects (or gives one, with which he receives the rest) or consistently fulfills his wishes. M57d2. The man was about to cut down a tree. It himself, or the creature living on it or in it, asks not to do so and fulfills the person's wishes. M57d3. A person receives a reward from a character who is associated with the wind. Cf. Motive K175 (“The wind carried away the flour”). M57d4. A person receives a reward from a character who is associated with frost. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of M57's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| G25 | 99.80% | Cereal seeds are scattered across the world, fell to the ground, now people grow bread. |
| I132B | 99.80% | A girl comes to the Sun to become his wife, but at the last moment undergoes a metamorphosis (usually turning into a bird). |
| I7B | 99.80% | Lightning – a crack in the sky through which the heavens are visible for a moment. |
| K102C | 99.80% | 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 | 99.80% | A magical horse (rarely: dog) eats (hot) coals, nails, etc., or attempts are made to feed these to the horse. |
| K38E2 | 99.80% | 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 | 99.80% | 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. |
| L103B1 | 99.80% | The hero or heroine flees from a demon on the back of a domestic animal (often a bull). When the demon approaches, the animal releases a stream of manure or intestinal gas into its face, and it stops the chase. |
| M38D4 | 99.80% | Several characters that embody small objects (and a squirrel with them) travel together. The needle penetrates the body of a large animal and kills it. (In the Baltic-Finnish texts, the needle first finds items that others find useless, but after the animal was caught, everything found turned out to be in demand for cooking meat). |
| M39A5A1 | 99.80% | Realizing that a son or wife, by telling the truth, will cause trouble for the family, the mother or husband makes them believe in the invasion of chickens (geese, crows), in the rain of stones, in the rain, from which they go blind, etc. In all cases, gullible people are planted in a hole covered with skin, in a barrel, etc., and let in the skin of poultry pecking grain (in Kyurins, chickens bite grain in the yard). See M39a5a motif. |
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This motif has been recorded in 14 traditions: Dards (Kalash, Kho, Kohistani, Shina, Pashai), Sardinia, Corsica, Sardinians, Corsicans, Poles, Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians, Moldovans, Latvians, Estonians, Vepsians, Norwegians, Western Ukrainians, Byelarusians, Belarusians, Crimean Tatars, Karaims, Chuvash, Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, Lazio), Tunisia