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Motif

Name_eng: 
Snake’s wife and her children: transformation into birds
Description: 

A snake crawls on the clothes of a bathing girl and lets her take them not before she gives a promice to marry him. He takes her to the underwater world. She is happy and they have children. She visits her kin taking her children with her. Her relations summon the snake and kill him. After this his wife transforms their childred and/or herself into birds

Name_rus: 
Жена змея и ее дети: превращение в птиц
Description_rus: 
Змей заползает на одежду купающейся девушки, слезает за обещание выйти за него замуж, уводит ее в подводный мир. Она там счастлива, рожает детей. Вместе с ними навещает родственников. Те вызывают из воды змея и убивают. После этого жена превращает детей и/или себя в птиц
Motif type: 
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group: 
07 Etiology of plants and animals and of their peculiar features, particular animals as protagonists of cosmological stories, metamorphoses, weather and calendar
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:
Areal IDTradition
4.1.2.2Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.4Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.1.2.5Byelarusians
4.1.3.1Russians: 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)
4.1.3.4Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
4.1.3.5Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
4.1.3.6Russians: 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)
4.1.3.8Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.2.3.3Vepsians
4.3.2.1Mari (Cheremis)
4.3.2.3Chuvash
4.3.3.1Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
5.1.4.1Karachays, Balkar
5.5.1.1Kazakh

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: k27q2 Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 11 Weight: 727
Motif: k56a4d Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: i50a1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: k35a7 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: f9g1 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: m152f Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: m39a2a Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 10 Weight: 600
Motif: a32m Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
Motif: k64c Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
Motif: f87 Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 20 Weight: 550
Motif: k100i Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: m39a3b Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 8 Weight: 500
Motif: i95b Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 12 Weight: 500
Motif: k56ac Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: m199m Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: l103a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: n28f Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: l103b1 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 8 Weight: 500
Motif: n27c Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 17 Weight: 471