m49a

Motif

Name_eng:

The substituted medicine-woman

Description:

The hero has to come unrecognized to the meeting place of his enemies. He meets an old woman (usually a shaman, a medicine-woman) who goes there, puts on her skin and acquires her appearance

Name_rus:

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Description_rus:

Герою нужно незамеченным проникнуть в локус опасных существ; он встречает идущую туда старуху (обычно шаманку, лекаршу), надевает на себя ее кожу, в ее облике проникает к опасным существам

Motif type:

Adventures and tricks

Motif group:

10 Adventures

Motif analysis result:

2. Only those motifs that are found in America (including the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans)

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
11.1.2.1	Chukchi
11.2.1.1	Asiatic Eskimo (Sirenek, Naukan, Chaplino)
11.2.1.2	St. Lawrence Island Yupik
11.2.2.1	Bering Strait Inupiat (incl. King Island)
11.2.2.2	North Alaskan Inupiat
12.1.1.3	Koyukon
12.2.2.3	Bella Coola (Nuxalk)
12.3.1.1	Carrier
12.3.1.2	Chilkotin
12.3.2.1	Shuswap
12.3.2.2	Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)
12.3.3.1	Okanagon, Sanpoil
12.3.3.2	Coeur D'Alene, Kalispel (Pend d'Oreille; incl Spokane)
12.3.4.4	Lushootseed (Puget Sound: Puyallup, Nisqualmi, Snuqualmi, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Skagit)
12.3.4.6	Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, (Lower) Cowlitz
12.3.6.1	Western Sahaptin (Upper Cowlitz, Klikitat, Tenino, Umatilla, Yakima, Wallawalla)
12.3.6.2	Nez Perce
12.3.7.2	Tillamook
12.3.7.3	Coos
12.3.7.4	Alcea; Siuslaw
12.3.7.6	Takelma
12.3.7.7	Oregon Athabaskans: Lower Umpqua, Tututni (incl Joshua), Upper Coquille, Galice, Tolowa
12.3.8.1	Kutenai
12.4.2.1	Menominee
12.4.2.3	Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree, Northern Saulteaux)
12.4.2.4	Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
12.4.2.5	Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario)
12.4.3.2	Montagnais
12.4.3.5	Western Swampy Cree (incl. Rock Cree)
12.4.4.1	Plains Cree
12.4.4.2	Plains Ojibwa
12.6.1.5	Hupa, Chilula
12.6.5.6	Kawaiisu
12.6.6.1	Serrano
12.7.1.10	Southern Paiute
12.7.1.11	Chemehuevi
12.7.1.6	Northern Shoshone
12.7.1.7	Western Shoshone, Gosiute
12.7.1.9	Ute
12.8.1.2	Zuni
12.8.4.1	Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai
12.8.4.4	Yuma proper (Quechan), Mohave, Maricopa
12.8.5.1	Pima
13.1.2.1	Assiniboine