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Motif

Name_eng:

Nails as a priviledged part of the body

Description:

Nails grow permanently or human body is covered with a hard layer only on the tips of fingers and toes because only these parts were rinsed with the water of life

Name_rus:

Растущие ногти

Description_rus:

Ногти постоянно растут либо тело человека покрыто твердой коркой лишь на ногтях, потому что только их омыли живой водой

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:

Areal ID	Tradition
10.3.2.3	Southern and Central; Ryukyu Islands: Yaeyama, Miyako, Okinawa
6.3.2.3	Stieng, Chrau, Sre (Koho), Maa, Mnong