e41a


Motif

Name_eng: 
The invention of pincers
Description: 

Crossed legs of a dog or jaws of a snake served as a model for the first pincers

Name_rus: 
Как придумали клещи
Description_rus: 
Первые клещи сделаны по образцу скрещенных собачьих лап или змеиной челюсти
Motif type: 
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group: 
06 Origin and interpretation of culture elements, in particular related to agriculture, inadequate forms of subsistence and economic activity 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: 
7

Linked traditions:
Areal IDTradition
3.5.1.2Bulgarians
5.1.3.1Abkhaz
5.1.3.3Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.2.2.1Armenians
5.4.2.4Highland Tajik
5.5.1.3Kirghiz
6.2.4.1Kachin (Jingpho), Chak, Maru

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: e41 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: m116b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: k9a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: k38f3 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: l94d Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: h55a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: k22aa Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: h7g2 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: f100a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: i82e Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: a8 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: m168b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: m199g2 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: k73b2 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: f100b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: k167b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: c33b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: f70f Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 10 Weight: 300
Motif: b33e Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 7 Weight: 286