j54a


Motif

Motif code: 
j54a
Name_eng: 
The calf and the tiger cub
Description: 

Two women (usually female animal persons) live together, both have children, one of them kills and devours another or wants to do it. The son of the murderer kills his mother and becomes a companion of the victim's son, or the victim’s and the murderer’s children escape together

Name_rus: 
Теленок и тигренок
Description_rus: 
Две женщины, обе или одна из которых – персонажи-животные, живут вместе, имеют детей. Одна из них убивает и съедает другую либо собирается это сделать. Сын убийцы убивает за это мать, остается побратимом сына убитой, либо дети убийцы и жертвы вместе убегают
Motif type: 
Adventures and tricks
Motif group: 
10 Adventures
Motif analysis result: 
1. Only those Old World motifs that are not found in America besides among 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: 
15
ATU ID: 
131

Linked traditions:
Western Sahara and Mauritania Arabs; Berbers of Mauritania (Zénaga)
Bemba (Wemba, Babemba; incl Ambo, Lala, Lamba, Bisa), Holoholo, Kaonde
Yambasa, Banen (Tunen)
Tiv, Bamum (Bamun), Mungaka (Mgaka, Bali), Beba, Anaguta, Bete (Mbete, Karang), Ekoi, Nyang, Vute (Wute), Jukun, Chamba, Bamileke, Kwotto, Kirri; Denya (Nyang)
Zaghawa
Mandingo (Manden, incl San, Samo), Kagoro, Bambara (Bamana), Malinke, Kassonke, Diula
Akan, Ashanti, Akwapim; Ga (Accra), Kra, Twi (Chwi, Chi)
Burmese, Intha
Santali, Turi, Mahli
Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)
Bengali, Maithili
Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
Mongols (Khalkha)
Kono (=Kone), Wai
Mende, Loma, Gbunde (Gbandi, Bandi)

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: l121a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: f9f2 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: b109a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: a8 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: c30b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: e1b1 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 9 Weight: 333
Motif: m183a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: d13hh Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: k108a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: k61f Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: e31b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 7 Weight: 286
Motif: m56d Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 7 Weight: 286
Motif: b77b2 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: k155c Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: m56c Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: k136 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 12 Weight: 250
Motif: h43ab Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: k73a3 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 8 Weight: 250
Motif: k27z2 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250