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Motif

Name_eng:

If by back, the ravines, if by head the red flowers

Description:

Person dragged on the ground disintegrates or touches the ground with different parts of her or his body producing particular features of landscape, different plants, etc.

Name_rus:

Где спиной, буераки, где головой - красные маки

Description_rus:

Персонаж, которого влачат по земле или который бежит, разваливается на части либо ударяется о землю разными частями тела. Это определяет особенности ландшафта и флоры

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
5.2.2.1	Armenians
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
9.3.1.1	Central Yakuts (Sakha)
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
4.2.2.2	Eastern Sami (including Inari, Skolts)
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
9.2.1.1	Mansi
9.2.1.3	Northern Khanty (Ostyaks)
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.3.8	Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
9.2.1.4	Southern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.2.2.3	Southern Selkups
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
5.1.2.2	Urums, Rumei
4.2.3.3	Vepsians