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M59A - Porcupine at the crossing
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Summary of Motif
After asking a large animal to transport it across the river, a porcupine kills or damages it. See M59 motif.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
M59 has 1 other sub-motifsM59. A small animal asks a large one to transport it across the river; consistently rejects all the seats on the carrier's body that he offers; climbs to where the carrier is You can kill when the crossing is over. M59a. After asking a large animal to transport it across the river, a porcupine kills or damages it. See M59 motif. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of M59's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| M29R | 100.00% | See the motives in square brackets. |
| H18A | 99.78% | The owner of the hunting animals hides them underground; one of the first ancestors turns into a puppy, which is picked up by the owner's children, and releases the animals. See motif H18. |
| M122 | 99.77% | In a difficult situation, the character asks for advice from his tail, penis, or some creatures in his stomach (these are excrement, intestinal parasites, his "sisters," etc.). |
| L80 | 99.75% | A demonic creature or animal is killed, but comes back to life or can come back to life if even a small piece of its flesh or blood is left behind, unnoticed. |
| M81A | 99.75% | The hero meets two blind women and makes them sighted. These women are birds (geese, ducks, hazel grouses, partridges). |
| K50 | 99.70% | A man approaches the enemy disguised as a woman and kills him at night (usually cutting off his head and taking it with him). |
| M59 | 99.70% | A small animal asks a large one to transport it across the river; consistently rejects all the seats on the carrier's body that he offers; climbs to where the carrier is You can kill when the crossing is over. |
| K25C | 99.68% | While digging roots, gathering shellfish, etc., a woman finds a baby. He grows up and enters into a struggle with dangerous characters. |
| M54 | 99.68% | The character lives or stays at someone else's house; then goes far away, falls asleep, but wakes up again in the same house. |
| J53 | 99.65% | The children of a character associated with a hoofed animal (deer, antelope) come into conflict with an enemy associated with a predator or a larger hoofed animal. They kill his children and/or run away from him. See motif J52. |
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This motif has been recorded in 9 traditions: Menominee, Crow, Chilkotin, Nez Perce, Klamath, Modoc, Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai, Navajo, Jicarilla, Chiricahua