m203

Motif

Name_eng:

Great Pan is dead

Description:

A supernatural person or creature asks a man (woman) to pass a message for an unknown adressée. The man does it or retells all the story to his family member. The story provokes such a reaction of another supernatural being (who usually lives in the man’s house) that is totally unexpected for the man

Name_rus:

Великий Пан умер

Description_rus:

Сверхъестественное существо передает неизвестному адресату через встречного человека некое сообщение. Выполнив просьбу или рассказав о случившемся с ним члену семьи, человек провоцирует неожиданную для себя реакцию другого сверхъестественного существа (обычно живущего в его доме)

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

08 Queer and monstrous beings, creatures, objects and loci, folk beliefs related to particular phenomena and objects

Motif analysis result:

1. Only those Old World motifs that are not found in America besides among the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans.

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

ATU ID:

113a

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.4.1.1	Ancient Greece
5.3.2.3	Arabs of Iraq
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.2.1.3	Danes
5.1.7.3	Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi
5.6.2.22	Dogri
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
4.2.2.2	Eastern Sami (including Inari, Skolts)
3.3.4.4	England
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.3.1	Finns
3.3.5.2	Frisians
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.3.5.3	Germans: Northwest (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl. East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen
3.3.5.4	Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
4.2.1.5	Icelanders
3.3.4.1	Ireland
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.1.3.1	Russians: Central part of Russian ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500: Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, eastern part of Smolensk provinces (most of Smolensk province is Belorussian ethnic territory)
4.1.3.4	Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
4.1.3.8	Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.1.3.3	Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
3.3.4.3	Scotland
4.2.1.4	Swedes
4.1.2.3	Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.2.2.1	Western Sami