f5a


Motif

Motif code: 
f5a
Name_eng: 
Woman created from a tail
Description: 

When God intends to create Eve from Adam’s rib, an animal (dof, cat, monkey, fox, snake) or a devil steals it. God (or his angel) pursues it and catches its tail. The tail tears off, God creates Eve from it. Or God made Eve from edible material and a dog devoured it, so God had to make Eve from Adam’s rib. Or God cut off Adam’s tail and made Eve from it.

Name_rus: 
Женщина из хвоста
Description_rus: 
Бог собирался сделать Еву из ребра Адама. Ребро утащила собака (кошка, лиса, обезьяна, черт). Бог (или посланный им ангел) погнался, схватил похитителя за хвост и оторвал его. Из этого хвоста Бог сделал Еву. Либо Бог сперва сделал женщину из съедобного материала и собака съела эту фигуру. Пришлось делать новую из ребра Адама. Либо Бог отрезал Адаму хвост и сделал из него Еву
Motif type: 
Adventures and tricks
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group: 
05 Origin of human beings, ethnic groups, etiology of human anatomy, strange body configuration, ways of behavior, marriages before the establishment of the present norms
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: 
22
ATU ID: 
798

Linked traditions:
Algeria Arabs
England
Portuguese
Catalan
French (northern France)
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
Hungarians
Bulgarians
Slovenians
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Latvians
Livonians
Estonians
Finns
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
Byelarusians
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
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)
Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: b49b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: k64c Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: a32m Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: k73a9 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: b87b Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 10 Weight: 700
Motif: i100d Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: c32 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: k181a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: m152f Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: k113b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: m179b Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 11 Weight: 636
Motif: m168a Shared traditions: 12 All traditions: 19 Weight: 632
Motif: k80a5 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 8 Weight: 625
Motif: b33d1 Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 13 Weight: 615
Motif: m201 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: d7a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: k56a4a Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 17 Weight: 588
Motif: i61a Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 12 Weight: 583
Motif: j7a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 9 Weight: 556