h7g


Motif

Motif code: 
h7g
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:
Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
Spain
Portuguese
Aragon
Maltese
Sardinia, Corsica
Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
Bretagne
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
Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
Slovakians
Greeks (modern)
Albanians
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
Kurds
Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
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

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: h54a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 8 Weight: 500
Motif: k107e1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: m109d Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: j62b Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 8 Weight: 500
Motif: j51a2 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: i100d Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: l108d Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 12 Weight: 500
Motif: b115a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 11 Weight: 455
Motif: k85a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 9 Weight: 444
Motif: k56a5a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 9 Weight: 444
Motif: l9g Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: m90a3 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: m152c Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: k127b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: h7b2 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 12 Weight: 417
Motif: k37b Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 12 Weight: 417