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Motif

Name_eng:

Carrying the unburied corpse

Description:

Person carries a dead body for a long time having no possibility to bury it or being ignorant how to do it but ultimately buries the corpse in the earth

Name_rus:

Носит непохороненный труп

Description_rus:

Персонаж долго носит тело умершего, не имея возможности его похоронить или не зная, как это сделать, но в конце концов захоранивает тело в земле

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

06 Origin and interpretation of culture elements, in particular related to agriculture, inadequate forms of subsistence and economic activity before the establishment of the present norms

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
5.1.5.3	Kumyk, Terekemen
5.1.6.1	Ingush
5.3.2.5	Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
6.2.2.8	Bhutan