m90a6


Motif

Motif code: 
m90a6
Name_eng: 
Apples of immortality
Description: 

Certain apples make their owner eternally young

Name_rus: 
Молодильные яблоки
Description_rus: 
Обладание некими яблоками обеспечивает вечную молодость
Motif type: 
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group: 
08 Queer and monstrous beings, creatures, objects and loci, folk beliefs related to particular phenomena and objects
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: 
15

Linked traditions:
Aramaic (Syrians)
Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
Algeria Arabs
Slovenians
Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia)
Russians: Central part of Russian ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500: Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, eastern part of Smolensk provinces (most of Smolensk province is Belorussian ethnic territory)
Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
Ossetians
Armenians
Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
Kirghiz
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
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)

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: k38f3 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 2 Weight: 1000
Motif: k113b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: m152f Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: m168b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: m116b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: k64c Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
Motif: e41 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
Motif: n9 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: f9g1 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: k180 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: i87f Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: j6a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: m39a3b Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 8 Weight: 500
Motif: e41a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: i59b3 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: k172 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: b103 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 13 Weight: 385
Motif: c36 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: b73a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375