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M60A - The hunter comes to the one he wounded
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Summary of Motif
The creature/character runs away or swims away with a hook, harpoon, arrow, or other object thrown by the hero in his body. Local shamans can't heal an existence/character. The hero or his friend comes to the wounded man's village, takes out the object that caused the injury, or drives him even deeper into the body. The patient recovers or dies accordingly. See L105 and M60 motifs.Berezkin category: Adventures: Tricks and episodes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
M60 has 7 other sub-motifsM60. After injuring a demon (robber), the hero goes to his locus. There he, or (rarely) his assistant, pretends to be a doctor and finishes off an opponent. M60a. The creature/character runs away or swims away with a hook, harpoon, arrow, or other object thrown by the hero in his body. Local shamans can't heal an existence/character. The hero or his friend comes to the wounded man's village, takes out the object that caused the injury, or drives him even deeper into the body. The patient recovers or dies accordingly. See L105 and M60 motifs. M60a1. The hero meets a servant (usually a shepherd) and takes his form, after asking how he acts, how he talks to the hostess (usually finds out what to say in order transport the herd across the river). M60a2. The servant must lick the master or mistress's feet or wound. The hero comes disguised as a servant and instead of licking his heels, touches them with the animal's cut off tongue. M60a3. Avenging the seized property (a pet or a bird), the hero repeatedly comes to the offender in different guises (girl, doctor, etc.) and brutally mocks him. M60b. The deceiver, promising to cure a wounded or sick person, finishes him off and eats him or offers a remedy that is only worse for him. M60b1. The crow promises to cure the fish, and eats it herself. M60b2. A large predator asks (agrees with the proposal) to make his skin beautiful (variegated). The deceiver burns it (scalds it, burns his eyes, etc.). Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of M60's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| K26 | 91.79% | Approaching an opening or making one, the character sees the world below (usually seeing the earth from the sky). See motif K25. |
| B10 | 91.67% | The character drinks a lake or all the water in the world, or the only water is in his stomach. They pierce his stomach or remove the plug, forcing him to burp up the water - the water pours out. See motif B7. |
| L105 | 91.06% | A wounded animal, fish or anthropomorphic character runs or swims away – usually with a hook, harpoon, arrow or other hunting or fishing implement stuck in its body; local healers cannot cure the wounded creature (usually because they cannot see the object that caused the wound); a person comes to the wounded person's village and successfully treats them (usually by removing the object that caused the wound). Cf. motif M60A. |
| K27X | 90.13% | A man marries a woman from another world; the wife leaves for her world, the man follows her; there, the woman has another fiancé(e) or husband, or the woman's brothers want to destroy the man; he undergoes trials and brings his wife back. See motif K27. |
| E1C | 86.85% | Man made from human excrement or (Inupiat) from carrion. |
| K34 | 86.52% | The character puts others on the swing and, after swinging them, throws them (or threatens to throw them) into the water, onto rocks, etc. |
| A38 | 86.22% | The sun falls into a snare, a trap, and finds itself tied by a rope. |
| K1C | 85.73% | A man is abandoned on an island but survives. After some time, the person who abandoned him comes to look at his bones. The abandoned man sails away in his boat, leaving him to die. |
| B82 | 85.30% | The raven (less often another bird of prey, or another black bird the size of a raven) was first white, and then turned black. |
| B38 | 84.25% | The character decorates birds or animals, or they decorate each other. Some are dissatisfied with the result. |
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This motif has been recorded in 31 traditions: Papua-NewGuinea Highland Papuans:Trans New Guinea & unclassified:Chimbu,Gimi,KaugelHuli,Gadsup,Kuman,Kutubu,Foi (Foe),Kyaka,Kamano (Kafe),Mawatta,Kukukuku (=Anga,=Sambia;Manki,Nauti,Ejuti),Baruya,Kewa,Tembregak,Menya,Melpa,Wiru,Pondoma, Torricelli family: Valman, Samap, Arapesh (Upper, Coastal), Monumbo, Lilau, Ngaimbom; Moando (Banara); Menya, Olo, Timor: Amarasi, Tetum, Meto, Atoni (incl Mollo), Kedang (Lomblen island), Leti Islands (Leti, Moa, Lakor), Roti, Bunak, Northern Halmahera Papuans: Galela, Loda, Pagu, Modole, Tabaru (Tobaru), Tobelo, Tidore, Ternate, Minahasa (incl. Tondano, Tentemboan), Bantik, Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia), Georgians, Kalmyk, Bashkirs, Tungus (Evenki): Baikal region, Evenks, Udeghe, Chukchi, Chugach, Tagish, Tahltan, Koyukon, Tanana, North Alaskan Inupiat, Eyak, Tsimshian, Nootka (Nu-chah-nulth), Makah, Micmac, Western Ojibwa (Chippewa), Montagnais, Menominee, Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo, Omaha, Ponca, Assiniboine, Comox, Pentlatch