Skip to main content
Home
About
Motif Comparison
Motifs
Motifs Full
Motif Types
Motif Groups
Motif Analysis Result
Motif Clusters
Traditions
Traditions Full
Site Map
Login
b109
Motif
Motif code:
b109
Name_eng:
Person turns into bear
Description:
Person turns into a bear (origin of bears)
Name_rus:
Человек стал медведем
Description_rus:
Человек обрастает шерстью, делается медведем (происхождение медведей)
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:
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:
47
Linked traditions:
Dards (Kalash, Kho, Kohistani, Shina, Pashai)
French (northern France)
Dutch, Flemish
Poles
Greeks (modern)
Bulgarians
Macedonians
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Lithuanians
Latvians
Estonians
Finns
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)
Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi
Karachays, Balkar
Tabasaran, Aghul
Avar, Andi, Akhvakh
Georgians
Talysh
Kirghiz
Bashkirs
Mari (Cheremis)
Mordvins
Udmurt
Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
Mansi
Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks)
Buryats: Western (cis Baikal)
Tuvinians of Tuva
Tofa (Karagas)
Northern Altai: Chelkan, Kumanda, Tubalar
Nganasans
Southern Selkups
Central Yakuts (Sakha)
Dolgans
Evens (Lamuts)
Oroch
Nanai
Creols of Russkoye Ustye
Chulym Turks
Northeastern Yakuts (Sakha): Yana, Indigirka and Kolyma Basins
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Ukrainians: Northern dialects
Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
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
Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif:
e1e
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 2 Weight: 1000
Motif:
b35a
Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 8 Weight: 875
Motif:
i87e
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif:
k85c
Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 9 Weight: 778
Motif:
m112b
Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 13 Weight: 769
Motif:
i137
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif:
b68a
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif:
k80a5
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 8 Weight: 750
Motif:
n31
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif:
b120
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 8 Weight: 750
Motif:
l17a2
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif:
h33a
Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 14 Weight: 714
Motif:
b33e1
Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 10 Weight: 700
Motif:
h24d
Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 13 Weight: 692
Motif:
f9g1
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif:
c32
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif:
k100i
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif:
f87b
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 9 Weight: 667
Motif:
k113b
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667