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Motif

Name_eng:

Red rags on eyelids

Description:

After they sew red rags or threads to person’s eylids or paint them in red (or he does it himself), he sees everything in red color or his eye become red forever

Name_rus:

Красные тряпочки на глазах

Description_rus:

Персонажу пришивают к глазам красные тряпочки (нитки, красят веки красным) или он сам это делает. Он видит все в красном цвете либо его глаза навсегда покраснели

Motif type:

Adventures and tricks

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

11 Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior

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
11.1.2.1	Chukchi
11.1.3.2	Maritime Koryak (Alyutor)
11.1.3.3	Kerek
11.1.3.4	Kamchadal
9.2.3.3	Enets
9.3.4.1	Evens (Lamuts)