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Motif

Name_eng:

Ungulate animal with more than four legs

Description:

An ungulate animal (a horse, an elk, a moose) with six or more legs is described or represented in art

Name_rus:

Многоногий зверь (копытное животное)

Description_rus:

Описывается или изображается копытное животное (конь, лось, олень) о шести и более ногах

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.

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

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

Stith Thompson ID:

B15.6.3.

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
11.2.1.1	Asiatic Eskimo (Sirenek, Naukan, Chaplino)
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
9.1.4.2	Buryats: Eastern (Trans-Baikal, Mongolia and Inner Mongolia)
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
9.3.1.1	Central Yakuts (Sakha)
11.1.4.2	Chuvans, Russian-speaking Creols of Markovo
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
9.1.5.1	Darkhad
9.1.5.4	Daur (Daghur)
10.2.1.1	Early Chinese written sources
9.2.1.2	Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.3.4.1	Evens (Lamuts)
11.1.1.1	Forest (Upper Kolyma) Yukaghir (Oduls)
9.2.3.2	Forest Nenets
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
3.3.4.1	Ireland
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
5.6.2.8	Kashmiri
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
9.2.2.1	Kets
9.1.2.2	Khakas
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
9.10.3.1	Manchu
9.2.1.1	Mansi
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
9.1.5.3	Mongols (Khalkha)
9.1.5.7	Mongols of Inner Mongolia
6.2.1.2	NE Tibetans (Amdo)
5.1.5.2	Nogai
9.3.1.5	Northeastern Yakuts (Sakha): Yana, Indigirka and Kolyma Basins
9.1.1.3	Northern Altai: Chelkan, Kumanda, Tubalar
9.2.1.3	Northern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.1.5.2	Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)
9.10.1.4	Oroch
5.4.2.1	Persians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.2.1.1	Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia)
9.1.2.1	Shor
9.1.1.1	Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
9.2.1.4	Southern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.3.2.2	Sym Tungus/Evenki
3.5.3.3	Transylvanian Saksons
11.1.1.2	Tundra (Lower Kolyma) Yukaghir (Waduls)
9.2.3.1	Tundra Nenets
9.1.3.2	Tuvinians of Southern Altai
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
9.3.2.5	Yerbogachen Tungus/Evenki