c8a1

Motif

Motif code:

c8a1

Name_eng:

Thread should enter the needle’s eye

Description:

Being alone and having no other marriage partners, brother and sister agree to marry each other if a highly improbable event will take place: a thread that is far from a needle has to enter the needle’s eye.

Name_rus:

Пусть нитка войдет в ушко

Description_rus:

Оказавшись одни и не имея других брачных партнеров, брат и сестра обусловливают возможность вступить в брак друг с другом наступлением невероятного события: находящаяся далеко от иголки нитка должна войти в игольное ушко

Motif type:

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

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:
Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China
Meo (Hmong) of Thailand, Laos and Northern Vietnam
Lahu, Kucong, Yi, Nosu (Nuosu, Northern Yi), Nisu, Nusu, Sani, Jino, Lolo (incl. Bai), Axi, Nasu
Udeghe
Manchu
Sichuan Chinese
Chinese of Qinghai and Gansu provinces and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
Chinese of Qinghai and Gansu provinces and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: c40 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: c8f Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: c8a Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 19 Weight: 368
Motif: e9i5 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: e1a1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: f51d Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: c39 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 12 Weight: 333
Motif: g8e Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 9 Weight: 333
Motif: e38c Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: b6a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: c41 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: c8a2 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: j19c Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: a46 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 25 Weight: 240
Motif: c8e Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 22 Weight: 227
Motif: e38b Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 30 Weight: 200
Motif: f97a5 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200
Motif: l15h4 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200
Motif: l102a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200