m203


Motif

Motif code: 
m203
Name_eng: 
Great Pan is dead
Description: 

A supernatural person or creature asks a man (woman) to pass a message for an unknown adressée. The man does it or retells all the story to his family member. The story provokes such a reaction of another supernatural being (who usually lives in the man’s house) that is totally unexpected for the man

Name_rus: 
Великий Пан умер
Description_rus: 
Сверхъестественное существо передает неизвестному адресату через встречного человека некое сообщение. Выполнив просьбу или рассказав о случившемся с ним члену семьи, человек провоцирует неожиданную для себя реакцию другого сверхъестественного существа (обычно живущего в его доме)
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: 
34
ATU ID: 
113a

Linked traditions:
Arabs of Iraq
Ireland
England
Scotland
Dutch, Flemish
Germans: Northwest (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl. East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen
Poles
Czech
Hungarians
Ancient Greece
Lithuanians
Lithuanians
Estonians
Finns
Western Sami
Eastern Sami (including Inari, Skolts)
Norwegians
Swedes
Danes
Byelarusians
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)
Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi
Mordvins
Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
Icelanders
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
Ukrainians: Northern dialects
Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
Frisians
Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
Dogri

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: k73b7 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: m203a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif: k27f2 Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 12 Weight: 833
Motif: k27g1 Shared traditions: 13 All traditions: 16 Weight: 813
Motif: k168b Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif: m203b Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif: b125a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif: j47a1 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif: k107a2 Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 14 Weight: 786
Motif: m38c3 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 9 Weight: 778
Motif: l72e1 Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 12 Weight: 750
Motif: i7b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: k56ac Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: m199d1 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 8 Weight: 750
Motif: l134 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 10 Weight: 700
Motif: k101b1 Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 13 Weight: 692
Motif: k56a5d Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 13 Weight: 692
Motif: k76d Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 13 Weight: 692
Motif: k57d Shared traditions: 12 All traditions: 18 Weight: 667