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Motif
Name_eng:
The life candle
Description:
Person gets to see a lot of burning candles or lamps. As soon as one of them goes out, somebody dies
Name_rus:
Жизнь как свеча
Description_rus:
Человек видит множество горящих свечей или лампад. Когда одна из них догорает, кто-то из людей умирает
Motif type:
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group:
04 Origin of death, diseases and hard life
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:
18
Linked traditions:
Areal ID
Tradition
3.3.1.1
Spain
3.3.1.2
Portuguese
3.3.1.4
Aragon
3.3.2.3
Sardinia, Corsica
3.3.2.4
Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
3.3.2.5
Maltese
3.3.3.1
Bretagne
3.3.3.5
Occitanie (southern France): Limousin, Auvergne, Provence, Aquitaine, Albret, Gers, Aveyron (Rouerge), Armagnac, Landes, Gascogne, Vivarés, Roussillon, Pyrénées, Bearne, Guyenne, Bigorre, Ain, Hautes Alpes, Ariège, Vienne, Aude, French part of Swiss
3.3.5.1
Dutch, Flemish
3.3.5.3
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
3.3.5.5
Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.5.1.1
Greeks (modern)
3.5.2.1
Albanians
4.1.1.3
Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
4.1.1.5
Slovakians
4.1.2.1
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
5.2.2.5
Kurds
5.3.2.2
Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif:
i22g1
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif:
k56a5c
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 8 Weight: 625
Motif:
b104a
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 9 Weight: 556
Motif:
j62b
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 8 Weight: 500
Motif:
m109d
Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif:
k107e1
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif:
j51a2
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif:
l108d
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 12 Weight: 500
Motif:
h54a
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 8 Weight: 500
Motif:
i100d
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif:
b115a
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 11 Weight: 455
Motif:
k56a5a
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 9 Weight: 444
Motif:
k85a
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 9 Weight: 444
Motif:
m152c
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif:
m90a3
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif:
k127b
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif:
l9g
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif:
k37b
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 12 Weight: 417
Motif:
h7b2
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 12 Weight: 417