k142


Motif

Motif code: 
k142
Name_eng: 
Corpse buried many times
Description: 

Person kills several people. asks somebody to bury only one and then tells that the dead man has returned. The grave-digger buries several people but believes that it was one and the same corpse

Name_rus: 
Трижды хоронит одного мертвеца
Description_rus: 
Умертвив нескольких, человек просит могильщика похоронить мертвеца и каждый раз говорит, что мертвец вернулся. Могильщик хоронит всех, но верит, что мертвец один единственный
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.
Motif analysis result tradition count all: 
59
ATU ID: 
1536B

Linked traditions:
Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
Arabs of Egypt
Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
Southern Luzon: Pampango, Pangacian, Sambal, Tagal, Tayabas; Calamian
Khmer
Viet, Muong
Nepali; Tharu
Assamese
Ireland
Spain
Portuguese
Catalan
Maltese
Sicily
French (northern France)
Dutch, Flemish
Poles
Czech
Slovakians
Greeks (modern)
Bulgarians
Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
Slovenians
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Lithuanians
Latvians
Livonians
Estonians
Setu
Finns
Vepsians
Swedes
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
Byelarusians
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)
Persians
Abkhaz
Ingush
Laks
Georgians
Anatolia Turks
Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
Dungan of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan
Turkmen
Mari (Cheremis)
Udmurt
Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)
Lao
Icelanders
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
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)
Frisians
Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
Khamti, Ahom

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: m152f Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: b125a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 5 Weight: 1000
Motif: k56a5c Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 8 Weight: 1000
Motif: b122 Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 9 Weight: 889
Motif: m38d5 Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 9 Weight: 889
Motif: k27z2f Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 9 Weight: 889
Motif: f87b Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 9 Weight: 889
Motif: a32m Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
Motif: k76d Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 13 Weight: 846
Motif: k100i Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: f9g1 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: i100d Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: k73b3 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: m39a8b Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 11 Weight: 818
Motif: j47a1 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif: i120a Shared traditions: 12 All traditions: 15 Weight: 800
Motif: l42i1 Shared traditions: 12 All traditions: 15 Weight: 800
Motif: i37d1 Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 10 Weight: 800
Motif: k67g Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800