i139


Motif

Motif code: 
i139
Name_eng: 
Strong men throw an axe to each other
Description: 

Two (rare: three) men or women regularly throw or give somthing to each other despite a significant distance between them. It is a sign of their strength, big size and dexterity

Name_rus: 
Перебрасывание топора
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: 
22
Stith Thompson ID: 
F531.3.2.3.

Linked traditions:
Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China
England
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
Kashubians, Poles of Polish Pomorie
Bulgarians
Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
Lithuanians
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
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)
Mari (Cheremis)
Mordvins
Udmurt
Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
Southern Selkups
Chechens
Southern Khanty (Ostyaks)
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
Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: k73b7 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: k56ac Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: m39a3b Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 8 Weight: 750
Motif: k56a5d Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 13 Weight: 692
Motif: k80a3 Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 16 Weight: 688
Motif: b33e2 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: l108g Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: k113b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: f9g1 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: i132a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: l42i Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 15 Weight: 600
Motif: i87e Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: l42i1 Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 15 Weight: 600
Motif: h6c3 Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 14 Weight: 571
Motif: m39a2b Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 9 Weight: 556
Motif: i82f Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 11 Weight: 545
Motif: k124 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 11 Weight: 545
Motif: m112b Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 13 Weight: 538
Motif: m29z2 Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 15 Weight: 533