l15a1

Motif

Name_eng:

Achilles' heel

Description:

Vulnerable place on the body of a person or creature is on his or her foot (toe, heel, sole, ankle)

Name_rus:

Ахиллесова пята

Description_rus:

Уязвимое место персонажа находится внизу ноги (пятка, палец, подошва, лодыжка, щиколотка)

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.2.4.12	Mongo (Mongo-Nkundu), Nkundu, Ngelima, Ngombe, (Ba)Tetela), Pende, Wu(Kusu), (Ba)Mbala (incl Saie, Kwilu)
11.2.3.5	Iglulik
12.5.1.1	Micmac
12.5.1.3	Wawenock, Abenaki, Penobscot
12.5.2.2	Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)
12.6.1.3	Karok
12.6.1.4	Shasta; Chimariko
12.6.1.5	Hupa, Chilula
12.6.1.6	Wailaki, Mattole, Lassik, Sinkyone, Cahto
12.6.1.7	Yuki (Yuki proper, Coastal Yuki, Huchnob)
12.6.2.1	Yana
12.6.3.1	Pomo
12.6.3.3	Wintu, Patwin, Nomlaki
12.6.3.4	Maidu, Nisenan, Konkov
12.6.4.1	Sierra Miwok
12.6.5.2	Northern Foothills Yokuts (Chukchansi, Dumna, Kechayi)
12.7.1.7	Western Shoshone, Gosiute
12.8.3.2	Jicarilla
12.8.3.3	Chiricahua
12.8.3.4	Mescalero
12.8.3.6	Lipan
12.8.4.1	Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai
15.3.4.2	Barasana, Taibano, Macuna
15.4.3.2	Xipaya (Shipaya)
15.7.2.1	Cayapo (incl. Kubenkranken, Pau d’Arco, Shikrin or Xikrin)
16.1.2.2	Chamacoco (Ishir)
16.1.3.1	Nivakle (=Chulupi, Ashluslay, Ajlujlay)
16.1.3.3	Chorote
16.1.4.1	Makka
16.1.4.2	Sanapana, Lengua (incl Angaite)
16.2.1.3	Northern and Southern Tehuelche
16.2.2.2	Yamana (Yaghan), Alacaluf
3.3.4.3	Scotland
3.4.1.1	Ancient Greece
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)
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Karata, Akhvakh
8.1.3.2	Kimberley Plateau: Gwini, Roebuck Bay, Forest River tribes, Drysdale River tribes, Njulnjul, Ungarinyin, Unambal, Bad (Baada)
9.1.1.1	Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
9.1.5.3	Mongols (Khalkha)