m113

Motif

Name_eng:

For certain bird water is taboo

Description:

During the hottest month of the summer or permanently birds of certain species are prohibited to drink from the water bodies. Usually they can quench their thirst only from rain drops and dew on leaves and cry calling for rain

Name_rus:

Птице запрещено пить

Description_rus:

Летом в разгар жары или же постоянно птицам определенного вида нельзя пить из водоемов и источников. Обычно считается, что они пьют только лишь дождевую воду и кричат, моля о дожде

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

07 Etiology of plants and animals and of their peculiar features, particular animals as protagonists of cosmological stories, metamorphoses, weather and calendar

Motif analysis result:

2. Only those motifs that are found in America (including the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans)

4. All motifs of category 1 (cosmology) in sub-Saharan Africa and those motifs of category 2 (adventures) which are found in sub-Saharan Africa and widespread in the Indo-Pacific world with scarce or no cases in Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Akhvakh
5.6.2.14	Bengali, Maithili
6.2.2.8	Bhutan
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
6.2.3.3	Chin-Naga: Ao, Mao, Sema, Zeme, Liangmai, Kolren, Kom, Lhota, Rengma, Angami, Kabui, Tangkhul, Koirenf
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
4.1.1.4	Czech
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
4.1.4.1	Early Russian written sources
4.1.4.1	Early Russian written sources
3.3.5.7	Eastern Prussia
4.2.4.2	Estonians
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
5.2.1.1	Georgians
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
5.6.2.2	Himachali-Pahari (Western Pahari)
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
5.6.1.1	Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
3.3.2.1	Italians: Northern (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Southern Tirol, Emilia–Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino–Alto Adige)
10.3.2.1	Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu
6.2.3.6	Kuki, Chiru, Falam (Hallam), Chin (Meitei =Manipuri, Khami, =Kumi), Lakher, Mizo (Lushei), Anal, Pawi (Lai), Purum, Koireng, Milhiem, Kolhen, Mru
5.1.7.4	Laks
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.4.4	Livonians
1.2.3.2	Lozi (Losi, Rotse, Barotse), Lui, Subiya (Subia)
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
5.6.2.12	Marathi (incl. Bhamta; incl. Mumbai area)
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
5.2.1.2	Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
6.2.3.4	Northern Naga: Konyak (incl. Tangsa), Lungshang, Wancho, Nokte, Moclum, Lunshan, Chang, Maring, Naga of Myanmar
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.1.1.1	Poles
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
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
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
5.1.7.6	Rutul, Tsakhur
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
5.6.2.17	Sinhalese; Vedda
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
6.1.1.8	Sora (Savara, Saora), Parenga
10.1.1.3	Southern Taiwan: Rukai, Paiwan, Puyuma, Saaroa, Ketangalan
5.4.2.3	Tajik
12.3.7.6	Takelma
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.1.2.3	Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
3.3.3.4	Upper Brittany
4.2.3.3	Vepsians