l23a


Motif

Motif code: 
l23a
Name_eng: 
Transformation into the fire
Description: 

Being seized, person changes his or her guise in succession, one of the transformations is into the fire (and also into the water)

Name_rus: 
Превращение в пламя
Description_rus: 
Пытаясь освободиться, схваченный персонаж последовательно меняет свой облик, в частности превращаясь в огонь (и воду)
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: 
8

Linked traditions:
Tamil, Muthuvan, Marvar
Greeks (modern)
Ancient Greece
Latvians
Byelarusians
Abkhaz
Chuvash
Rusyns, Hutsuls

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: k9a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: m201 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: i4d1 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: b32a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: f101 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: k67g Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: i50a1 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: k73b2 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: m199m Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: c33b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: m45b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: k56b1 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 9 Weight: 333
Motif: k181a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: k73b3 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: k56a8b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: k100i Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: b48d Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: a8a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 9 Weight: 333
Motif: l15g1 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333