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N21 - Hero dough
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Summary of Motif
The warrior-hero was made of dough and then became alive (his name is “The Dough”)Berezkin category: Fabulous and epic formulas
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 12, Proper names
N21 has 1 other sub-motifsN21. The warrior-hero was made of dough and then became alive (his name is “The Dough”) N21a. After swallowing a pea, a woman gives birth to a mighty hero. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of N21's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| K137 | 99.93% | The brother is killed, the sister, dressed in her brother's clothes and disguised as a young man, finds women who are able to revive the dead, puts her brother's clothes back on his body, and the women who have come revive him. Or the sister is killed, the brother lures women capable of reviving the dead, puts his clothes on his dead sister, the women think it is their husband, and revive the girl. |
| K137A | 99.93% | The brother is killed. The sister, dressed in his clothes, finds a woman. The brother comes back to life, the sister puts on women's clothes again, and the woman believes that the girl's brother was the one who married her. |
| M109A | 99.62% | One zoomorphic character advises another to sit on the ice for a long time – usually until food falls from the sky. The one who sits on the ice freezes to it. |
| I20B | 99.27% | People in the upper world are different from those on earth and gird themselves below or above the waist. |
| K27L1 | 99.11% | Voluntarily subjecting himself to trials, the character allows himself to be frozen in ice and cannot free himself. |
| N28G | 98.91% | In a list of things that do not exist in the world, a gall of horse or ass is mentioned |
| N6 | 98.69% | horse tells the rider to whip it so hard that his blood splashes, his skin peels off, the meat is cut to the bone, etc. The rider follows these instructions. |
| M177A | 98.55% | One zoomorphic character teaches another to remain silent, to look at him or away when a third character asks who ate the best piece. It is a trap: the third character decides that the second is guilty. |
| L65B4 | 98.54% | The character pulls out his tooth to use it as a weapon or tool (often an axe). |
| B115 | 98.53% | Conifers and some other trees and shrubs (small shrubs) became evergreen after the elixir of immortality was accidentally spilled on them. Cf. motif H6b. |
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This motif has been recorded in 14 traditions: Nogai, Tats, Anatolia Turks, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Uyghur, Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars, Bashkirs, Mari (Cheremis), Chuvash, Buryats: Western (cis Baikal), Siberian Tatars, Central Yakuts (Sakha), Buryats: Eastern (trans Baikal), i.e. Khori