b115a


Motif

Motif code: 
b115a
Name_eng: 
Knots put in wood
Description: 

Person (St. Peter), angry at carpents, wants another (Christ) to make wood (trees) with iron knots (branches, nails) but the latter makes the branches only of hard wood

Name_rus: 
Узлы в древесине
Description_rus: 
Рассердившись на плотников, персонаж (св. Петр) просит другого (Христа) сделать узлы в древесине или сучья железными. Тот лишь делает их очень твердыми
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: 
11
ATU ID: 
774H

Linked traditions:
Catalan
Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
Dutch, Flemish
Germans: Northwest (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl. East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen
Czech
Slovakians
Hungarians
Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
Frisians
Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: b104a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 9 Weight: 556
Motif: k176a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: j51a2 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: i7b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: k101b1 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 13 Weight: 462
Motif: k76d Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 13 Weight: 462
Motif: m38c3 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 9 Weight: 444
Motif: m198b1 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: i100c Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: b110a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: m197f Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 13 Weight: 385
Motif: l65b5 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: m179b Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 11 Weight: 364
Motif: i80b Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 22 Weight: 364
Motif: k101b Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 25 Weight: 360
Motif: k107a2 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 14 Weight: 357
Motif: m157d Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 14 Weight: 357
Motif: m39g2 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 15 Weight: 333
Motif: m45b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333