l125b


Motif

Motif code: 
l125b
Name_eng: 
Spouse who eats the dead
Description: 

Spying on his wife (her husband), the man (woman) gets to see that she (he) goes to eat the dead bodies

Name_rus: 
Ест мертвечину
Description_rus: 
Проследив за женой (мужем), муж (жена) обнаруживает, что по ночам та или тот ходит пожирать мертвецов
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: 
14

Linked traditions:
Yemen
Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
Santali, Turi, Mahli
Northern Naga: Konyak (incl. Tangsa), Lungshang, Wancho, Nokte, Moclum, Lunshan, Chang, Maring, Naga of Myanmar
Slovakians
Hungarians
Bulgarians
Latvians
Livonians
Estonians
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
Crimea Tatars, Karaims
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: m152f Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: d7a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: k73a9 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: b87b Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 10 Weight: 400
Motif: m201 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: k56a8c Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: b33d1 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 13 Weight: 385
Motif: k56a5c Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: k65e1 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 11 Weight: 364
Motif: m179b Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 11 Weight: 364
Motif: b48d Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: b122 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 9 Weight: 333
Motif: m45b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: a39 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: c32 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: i122 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: i82e Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: k61f Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: a8a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 9 Weight: 333