k73a6

Motif

Name_eng:

Children turn into trees

Description:

Enemies of the woman kill (throw away) her wonderful children. Trees (flowers) grow from their remains. Eventually the children acquire their human form again.

Name_rus:

Ребенок превращается в дерево

Description_rus:

Недоброжелательницы женщины убивают (выбрасывают) ее чудесных детей. Из их останков вырастают деревья (цветы), позже вновь перевоплощающиеся в людей

Motif type:

Adventures and tricks

Motif group:

10 Adventures

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
3.3.2.2	Sicily
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
3.5.2.1	Albanians
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
3.5.3.3	Transylvanian Saksons
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.5.2.5	Salars
5.6.2.14	Bengali, Maithili
5.6.2.18	Oriya (incl. Dom/Domba/Dombo, Ghasi, Bhat and other Oriya-speaking castes of Odisha)
5.6.2.2	Himachali-Pahari (Western Pahari)
6.1.1.3	Northern Munda of Kharwar branch: Birhor, Ho, Mundari, Kol, Asur (including Agaria, Kol, Birjhia), Bhumij
6.1.2.1	Oraon (Kurukh)
6.2.1.2	NE Tibetans (Amdo)
6.2.2.1	Lepcha
6.3.1.5	Lao
6.3.2.9	Tjam, Ede, Jörai (Jarai)