Toto, Rabha (northern Western Bengalia)



Tradition title rus: 
Тото, рабха (север Западной Бенгалии)
Areal ID: 
6.2.2.7
Language: 
Tradition analysis result motif count all: 
39.00
Tradition analysis result motif count cosmo: 
13.00
Motifs: 

Motif

h42


Name_eng: 
Creator goes away for a while
Description: 

After creating the bodies of the first people or after getting a conception how to do it the Creator goes away for a while. During his absence another person, because of his or her ignorance or intentionally, spoils the creation or makes himself or herself what the Creator would make in a better way. Usually because of this people are mortal and subject to diseases




Motif

h43


Name_eng: 
One creates the body, another the soul
Description: 

One supernatural creates the body of the first people, another revives them




Motif

e11


Name_eng: 
The burned skin
Description: 

Magic person reveals his true nature and/or remains with the real people after the object responsible for preserving the non-human appearance (usually an animal skin) is destroyed (usually burned)




Motif

i120


Name_eng: 
Cornucopia
Description: 

Food and clothes are extracted from the horn of a cow or goat




Motif

k29b


Name_eng: 
Posthole murder
Description: 

Hero is asked to climb into a hole or pit. When he does it, they fill it with soil or throw down a post, a stone, etc. The hero demonstrates his magic capacities coming back uninjured




Motif

k32


Name_eng: 
The false wife
Description: 

An ugly, old, lazy, etc. woman or (in Chaco) a male trickster comes to man under disguise of his wife or bride who is driven out, confined to the underworld, killed, etc.




Motif

k33


Name_eng: 
Drowned woman remains alive
Description: 

A young woman is transformed into an animal, pushed into the water, into the underworld or she herself has to plunge into water (acquire animal form). Her connection with the human world is not completely lost, however, and usually she is helped to return to the people




Motif

k56


Name_eng: 
The kind and the unkind girls
Description: 

One of (step)sisters, co-spouses or young female neighbors meets a being that is able to reward and to punish. She behaves herself properly and is rewarded. Another (other) girl comes to the same being but behaves in a wrong way and is punished (not rewarded).




Motif

k75


Name_eng: 
The youngest daughter is willing (The loathsome bridegroom)
Description: 

A girl (usually the youngest of several sisters) does not reject but marries a poor, sick, dirty, old, too young, non-human, etc. man who later demonstrates his supernatural qualities




Motif

k76


Name_eng: 
A strange son
Description: 

A boy born into a family or found by his adoptive parents has a strange guise (ball of meat, nut, bag, half of a man, an animal). He possesses magic power, becomes a handsome man and usually marries a girl of high social status. The magic spouse of a princess originally has a non-human or monstrous appearance




Motif

k76a


Name_eng: 
Frog as a marriage partner
Description: 

Frog or toad marries a girl or a handsome youth marries a frog or road




Motif

k76c


Name_eng: 
Child the gourd
Description: 

An (adoptive) son (rare daughter) emerges from a gourd (rare water melon, coco nut) or is found inside it




Motif

k80


Name_eng: 
Repetitive reincarnation
Description: 

Person (usually a young woman) turns into different objects or creatures which another person destroys one by one. However, the person is reincarnated again and again and ultimately acquires her or his original form




Motif

k82


Name_eng: 
Evil sister-in-law
Description: 

Wife of a man or wives of a group of brothers envy his (their) sister and tries (try) to destroy her




Motif

k103


Name_eng: 
Helpful cow
Description: 

Cow (ox, bull) helps an orphan child or a young woman who got into trouble




Motif

l81d


Name_eng: 
Two cripples fight and become healthy
Description: 

Two cripples with different injuries quarrel and fight after overcoming a demon that makes them unexpectedly healthy




Motif

c8


Name_eng: 
The couple of close relations originates the mankind
Description: 

In the beginning of time or after the natural disaster brother and sister, mother and son, or father and daughters are the only human beings. They marry and the present day people are their descendents




Motif

c8c


Name_eng: 
Mother and son produce people
Description: 

After the world cataclysm, in the beginning of time or coming to a new land a woman marries her son and produce people




Motif

l44


Name_eng: 
Show me your head!
Description: 

A man hides in a shelter. An ogre wants him to demonstrate certain parts of his body. The man demonstrates or parts of the body of an animal or some objects. The ogre believes that his adversary is a powerful creature




Motif

l81c


Name_eng: 
Feetless, handless and blind
Description: 

A man whose feet were cut off lives with two others, one of whom lost his hands and another eyes (or with one of them). Acting in cooperation, they become health again




Motif

k119


Name_eng: 
Animal helper marries a poor boy to a princess
Description: 

To make a poor man rich (usually to marry him to a rich girl or to marry a poor girl to a prince), an animal makes other people believe that the groom is rich already. The man becomes prosperous indeed




Motif

l37a


Name_eng: 
To get know causes of problems
Description: 



Motif

l37c1


Name_eng: 
Luck (good or bad) as a person
Description: 

Good or bad luck of a man are particular persons with whom the man meets




Motif

l93a


Name_eng: 
Helpful fox
Description: 

Cunning fox, jackal or coyote saves particular person or many people, helps them




Motif

m29b


Name_eng: 
Trickster-fox, jackal or coyote
Description: 

In episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is fox, jackal or coyote




Motif

m29g


Name_eng: 
Trickster-hare or rabbit
Description: 

In episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is hare or rabbit




Motif

m29g1


Name_eng: 
Hare or rabbit as the main trickster
Description: 

In most of the episodes related to deception, absurd, obscene or anti-social behavior the protagonist is hare or rabbit. Not considered are traditions in which 1) trickster hare/rabbit is rare while other trickster (usually fox/jackal/coyote) typical; 2) Mesoamerican traditions in which episodes with trickster rabbit are not many and could be borrowed in post-Columbian time being of African origin




Motif

m29w2


Name_eng: 
The tiger is a failure
Description: 

Because of its stupidity and unsocial behavior, the tiger suffers a reverse, is injured or dies




Motif

m38


Name_eng: 
Stupid imitation (all versions)
Description: 

Person sees how others act using magic or according to their animal nature. He or she imitates their actions and gets into trouble. Actions are not heroic deeds, competitions or tests and refer to everyday activity, mostly to providing and cooking food




Motif

m45a


Name_eng: 
Old man and animals
Description: 

A man falls asleep or pretends to be sleeping or dead. Animals take him for dead: mourn, carry to bury, are going to eat up, etc. The man kills a lot of animals or obtain valuables otherwise




Motif

m143


Name_eng: 
Fox in a well
Description: 

Getting into a well or pit and being unable to climb out animal person tricks another to descend and thanks to this gets out while the second person remains below




Motif

m144


Name_eng: 
The wasp nest as king’s drum
Description: 

One animal person gets to convince another that dangerous or disgusting objects are attractive and delicious (a wasp nest is a drum, a snake is a girdle, a heap of dung is a delicacy, etc.)




Motif

k49


Name_eng: 
Dead mother returns to nurse her baby
Description: 

A woman who is transformed into animal or driven out of the human world returns to her baby to feed and to care for him




Motif

m45c


Name_eng: 
To plant the boiled tubers
Description: 

Person gives advice that the right way to plant seeds or tubers is to cook them before




Motif

k76h


Name_eng: 
Magic bridegroom threatens the girl’s father with disasters
Description: 

A youth who temporally has a strange or monstrous guise wants to marry a princess but is rejected. He threatens the princess’ father with disasters after which the king agrees to give him his daughter




Motif

m38a2


Name_eng: 
The hen cooks her eggs
Description: 

The hen (other bird) cooks her own eggs and serves them to other animal persons (who imitated her with disastrous consequences)




Motif

e8b


Name_eng: 
Woman hides in a fruit
Description: 

A woman hides in a fruit that was brought to house and comes out when nobody is nearby




Motif

e8a


Name_eng: 
People from the fruits
Description: 

Women or people in general come out of the fruits (orten the coconuts) or (more rare) leaves of the cocos palm spontaneously turn into women




Motif

c8aa


Name_eng: 
Brother and sister beget the people
Description: 

In the beginning of time or after the natural disaster brother and sister are the only human beings. They marry and the present day people are their descendents





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