b109

Motif

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
11.1.4.1	Creols of Russkoye Ustye
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
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
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.3	Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
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)
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Karata, Akhvakh
5.1.7.7	Tabasaran, Aghul
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.2.4	Talysh
5.4.3.2	Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi
5.4.4.2	Dards (Kalash, Kho, Kohistani, Shina, Pashai)
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
9.1.1.3	Northern Altai: Chelkan, Kumanda, Tubalar
9.1.2.3	Chulym Turks
9.1.3.1	Tuvinians of Tuva
9.1.3.3	Tofa (Karagas)
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
9.10.1.1	Nanai
9.10.1.4	Oroch
9.2.1.1	Mansi
9.2.1.2	Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.2.2.3	Southern Selkups
9.2.3.4	Nganasans
9.3.1.1	Central Yakuts (Sakha)
9.3.1.2	Dolgans
9.3.1.5	Northeastern Yakuts (Sakha): Yana, Indigirka and Kolyma Basins
9.3.4.1	Evens (Lamuts)