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Motif

Name_eng:

Spirits fall from the sky

Description:

Being thrown down (usually from the sky), some beings get to different places and turn into spirits or animals with particular functions and names

Name_rus:

Духи падают с неба

Description_rus:

Будучи сброшены с высоты или выброшены, различные существа попадают в различные локусы, получая соответствующие функции и имена

Motif type:

Adventures and tricks

Motif group:

03 Cosmogony, the earth and the sky, etiology of the elements, natural and biological phenomena (fire, water, soil, thunderstorms, dream, etc.), cataclysms and cosmic threats, spirits of nature

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:

Stith Thompson ID:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
6.4.1.1	Andamanese
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
4.2.1.3	Danes
4.1.4.1	Early Russian written sources
4.2.4.2	Estonians
3.5.4.1	Gagauz
5.2.1.1	Georgians
4.2.1.5	Icelanders
3.3.4.1	Ireland
4.2.3.2	Karelians
9.2.2.1	Kets
6.1.1.5	Kharia
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
4.2.4.5	Lutsi (Ludza)
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
10.2.3.4	Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China
6.4.7.5	Mindanao: Blaan (Bilaan), Bagobo, Bukidnon, Cotabato, Hiligáynon, Binukid, Magindaan (=Magindanao: main Muslim population), Mandaya, Mansaka, Manobo (Agusan, Ata, Dibabawon, Sarangani, Ilianen), Maranao, Subanon (=Subanun), Subanen, Tboli
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
6.1.1.3	Northern Munda of Kharwar branch: Birhor, Ho, Mundari, Kol, Asur (including Agaria, Kol, Birjhia), Bhumij
9.2.2.4	Northern Selkups
6.4.4.1	Ot Danum, Ngaju, Maanyan (Ma'anyan)
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.3.7	Russian Pomors ("seasiders"): Lower Pechora
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)
6.1.1.1	Santali, Turi, Mahli
4.1.1.3	Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
9.1.1.1	Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
4.2.1.4	Swedes
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.2.3.3	Vepsians
4.2.2.1	Western Sami