l131a


Motif

Motif code: 
l131a
Name_eng: 
Your house is on fire! (appeal to a demon)
Description: 

To get rid of a (female) demon, she is told that her house and/or children are on fire

Name_rus: 
Твои дети горят: обращение к демону
Description_rus: 
Чтобы избавиться от демонического существа (обычно женщины), ему сообщают, что локус, где находятся его дом и (или) дети, охвачен огнем
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: 
2. Only those motifs that are found in America (including the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans)
Motif analysis result tradition count all: 
13

Linked traditions:
Ireland
Scotland
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Lithuanians
Karelians
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
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)
Mansi
Western Sahaptin (Upper Cowlitz, Klikitat, Tenino, Umatilla, Yakima, Wallawalla)
Nez Perce
Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet
Northern Khanty (Ostyaks)
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: k107e1 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: m84b2 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: b109a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: m152f Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: l131 Shared traditions: 13 All traditions: 23 Weight: 565
Motif: e1e Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: n16 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 13 Weight: 462
Motif: m81e2 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: i87e Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: m203b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: l103b1 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: b33b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: m57d4 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 11 Weight: 364
Motif: j7a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 9 Weight: 333
Motif: k184 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: k181a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: j51a2 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: l85d Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: b108 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333