l23b


Motif

Motif code: 
l23b
Name_eng: 
Transformation into the spindle
Description: 

Being seized, person changes his or her guise in succession, the last transformations is into a spindle

Name_rus: 
Превращение в веретено
Description_rus: 
Пытаясь освободиться, схваченный персонаж последовательно меняет свой облик. Последнее превращение – в веретено
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: 
16

Linked traditions:
Poles
Latvians
Setu
Finns
Karelians
Vepsians
Western Sami
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
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)
Mordvins
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
Russians: Southern part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Belgorod, Voronezh, Tambov, Penza, Lipetsk, Orel, Kursk, Bryansk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Samara, Simbirsk and Saratov provinces)
Lutsi (Ludza)
Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: l23c Shared traditions: 15 All traditions: 17 Weight: 882
Motif: k56a4d Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
Motif: m38d4 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: n35 Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 12 Weight: 750
Motif: m191c Shared traditions: 12 All traditions: 17 Weight: 706
Motif: k27f2 Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 12 Weight: 667
Motif: i50a1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: k100i Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: m74c Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: m45b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: k113b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: f9g1 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: l108g Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: m152f Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: m57d4 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 11 Weight: 636
Motif: l103b1 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 8 Weight: 625
Motif: k35c2 Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 16 Weight: 625
Motif: m39a3b Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 8 Weight: 625
Motif: k56a5d Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 13 Weight: 615