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M89 - Melted wax

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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 character is humiliated after an object or creature made of wax, resin, or excrement that he made himself or that he thought was strong melts warmly, the present.

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

M89 has 1 other sub-motifs M89.  A character is humiliated after an object or creature made of wax, resin, or excrement that he made himself or that he thought was strong melts warmly, the present. M89a.  Only horned animals are allowed to attend the festival. The hyena makes fake horns for itself, exposed.  Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of M89's motifs?

Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns

Motif	Similarity	Motif Summary
K8E	95.52%	The character penetrates inside the creature through the anus.
M28	94.14%	When able to take off, the character takes off but falls or stays in a remote place from where he can no longer take off.
D4A	91.65%	Fire is stolen from its original owner, returned to people by the thief, or (the motif of theft is not expressed) brought with difficulty from a distant place.
L61	90.60%	The character eats himself, guts himself, or kills himself in order to be eaten.
I28	90.16%	Wild or domestic animals live inside a mountain, in a cave or in the underground world, or once came out of there into our world; often animals take on human form underground and have an owner. See motif H18.
M8A	89.92%	Animals, and more often birds, find it difficult to break through a rock from the outside or inside, make a hole in the tree, in the body of an absorber creature, tear fetters, etc., to help a character or get out of the confined space by yourself. The list <b><i>includes</i></b> groups whose texts deal with the exit of the first ancestors to earth from a confined space.
H10	89.77%	People are mortal, as they are likened to a stone thrown into water; they usually miss the opportunity to resemble organic matter that floats in water.
A5	89.68%	The Moon is male, the Sun is also male or (rarely) has no gender.
H18	89.35%	Hunted animals were concentrated in one place. A certain character creates them there or allows them to scatter.
I1	89.33%	Creatures that cause or embody rain and/or thunderstorms are birds or winged anthropomorphic characters. {Traditions in which birds are associated with thunderstorms and rain, but Thunder itself is not a bird, are marked with an asterisk (*).

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Map of Motif Dispersal

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Terrain Minimal Countries

This motif has been recorded in 28 traditions: Malawi (incl Nyanja, Banyanja, Manganja), Tumbuka (incl Henga), Nsenga, Matengo, (Ba)Wenda, Swahili, Midjikenda (incl Giryama), Nyika, Duruma; Ngindo, Kiluguru and other Islamic groups of the Eastern Coast of Africa, Gogo, Kaguru, Luguru, Zigula, Taveta, Shambala (Sambala), Bondei, Taeta, Dabida; Zaramo, Bemba (Wemba, Babemba; incl Ambo, Lala, Lamba, Bisa), Holoholo, Kaonde, Bugi, Macassar, Batak (Toba, Dairi), Sicily, Sicilians, Ancient Greece, Aleuts, Menominee, Blackfoot, Plains Ojibwa, Assiniboine, Comox, Pentlatch, Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, (Lower) Cowlitz, Wappo, Navajo, Jicarilla, Lenca, Napo (Quijo), Kanelo (“Jungle Kechua”), Shuar, Achuar (Shiwiar), Aguaruna, Huambiza, Witoto, Ocaina, Shipibo, Conibo, Setebo, Mundurucu, Curuaia, Mataco, Ofaie, Scythians, Scythe

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