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Motif

Name_eng:

The external soul: three or more objects one inside the other

Description:

An object that contains the life (soul) of a person is inside two or more creatures or other objects (like an egg in a duck, a duck in a hare, etc.) or the zoomorphic soul container tries to escape and turns in succession to other animals (three or more transformations)

Name_rus:

Внешняя душа: последовательные вложения

Description_rus:

Объект, в котором сосредоточена жизнь персонажа, заключен в другом, тот в третьем и т.д. (типа яйцо в утке, утка в зайце, заяц в сундуке и т.п.). Либо животное, в котором заключена душа персонажа, превращается, убегая, в других животных. Говорится о трех или более вложениях или превращениях

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
3.5.2.1	Albanians
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.3.2.5	Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
5.2.2.1	Armenians
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
3.3.1.5	Basques
3.1.3.3	Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
3.3.3.1	Bretagne
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
3.3.1.3	Catalan
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
9.1.2.3	Chulym Turks
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
4.2.1.3	Danes
9.3.1.2	Dolgans
5.5.2.3	Dungan of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
3.3.5.7	Eastern Prussia
4.2.4.2	Estonians
9.3.4.1	Evens (Lamuts)
3.5.4.1	Gagauz
5.2.1.1	Georgians
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
5.1.6.1	Ingush
3.3.4.1	Ireland
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)
3.1.3.2	Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
5.4.4.1	Kafir, or Nuristani: Prasun; Kati (incl. Paruni), Ashkun (Ashunu), Waigali
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
4.2.3.2	Karelians
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
3.3.2.5	Maltese
1.3.5.11	Mandingo (Manden, incl San, Samo), Kagoro, Bambara (Bamana), Malinke, Kassonke, Diula
5.2.1.2	Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
9.10.2.1	Nivkh
9.1.1.3	Northern Altai: Chelkan, Kumanda, Tubalar
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
3.3.3.5	Occitanie (southern France): Limousin, Auvergne, Provence, Aquitaine, Albret, Gers, Aveyron (Rouerge), Armagnac, Landes, Gascogne, Vivarés, Roussillon, Pyrénées, Bearne, Guyenne, Bigorre, Ain, Hautes Alpes, Ariège, Vienne, Aude, French part of Swiss
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.4.2.1	Persians
4.1.1.1	Poles
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
5.6.2.9	Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
3.3.2.4	Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
5.4.3.2	Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi
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)
4.1.3.8	Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.1.3.6	Russians: Southern part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Belgorod, Voronezh, Tambov, Penza, Lipetsk, Orel, Kursk, Bryansk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Samara, Simbirsk and Saratov provinces)
4.1.3.3	Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
3.3.2.3	Sardinia, Corsica
3.3.4.3	Scotland
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
9.1.1.4	Siberian Tatars
3.3.2.2	Sicily
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
1.3.4.6	Songhai
1.3.4.6	Songhai
9.1.1.1	Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
9.2.2.3	Southern Selkups
3.3.1.1	Spain
4.2.1.4	Swedes
5.4.2.3	Tajik
3.5.3.3	Transylvanian Saksons
3.1.3.8	Tuareg
3.1.3.7	Tunisia Arabs
9.1.3.2	Tuvinians of Southern Altai
9.1.3.1	Tuvinians of Tuva
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
3.3.3.4	Upper Brittany
5.5.2.1	Uyghur
5.4.2.8	Uzbek
4.2.2.1	Western Sami
5.4.3.1	Yagnobi