f87b | MapsOfMyths

Motif code:

f87b

Name_eng:

Snake’s wife and her children: transformation into trees

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 trees

Name_rus:

Жена змея и ее дети: превращение в деревья

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 деревья

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.

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