i13d

Motif

Name_eng:

Hibernating with snakes

Description:

A man gets into the dwelling of snakes and after a long time escapes or is permitted to go. In While in the dwelling of snakes, he usually licks a special stone that allows to live without water and food

Name_rus:

Зимовка со змеями

Description_rus:

Человек попадает в жилище змей, проводит там долгое время, отпущен назад или убегает. Находясь в обители змей, обычно лижет там камень, избавляющий от жажды и голода

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.

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

ATU ID:

672D

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.2.5.12	Swahili, Midjikenda (incl Giryama), Nyika, Duruma; Ngindo, Kiluguru and other Islamic groups of the Eastern Coast of Africa
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.1.3.8	Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.2.1.4	Swedes
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.2.5	Kurds
5.3.2.5	Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
5.4.3.3	Yazgulami
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
6.2.1.1	Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
6.2.2.8	Bhutan
9.1.2.2	Khakas
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)