b123


Motif

Motif code: 
b123
Name_eng: 
The flies instead of nails on Christ’s heart
Description: 

Flies look like nails and prevent more nails being driven in

Name_rus: 
Муха вместо гвоздя
Description_rus: 
Муха садится на грудь распятого Иисуса. Преследователи, намеревавшиеся вбить в сердце гвоздь, не делают этого, полагая, что гвоздь уже вбит
Motif type: 
Adventures and tricks
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group: 
08 Queer and monstrous beings, creatures, objects and loci, folk beliefs related to particular phenomena and objects
11 Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior
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: 
7
ATU ID: 
772*

Linked traditions:
Serbs, Monte Negro,
Estonians
Setu
Byelarusians
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Ukrainians: Northern dialects
Lutsi (Ludza)

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: j47a1 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif: m201 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: k73b3 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: d1a4 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 11 Weight: 455
Motif: f87b Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 9 Weight: 444
Motif: k64c Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: k80a5 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: i42g3 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 11 Weight: 364
Motif: m38e Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 11 Weight: 364
Motif: k119c Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 14 Weight: 357
Motif: l120b Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 12 Weight: 333
Motif: m74c Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: l108g Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: k56b1 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 9 Weight: 333
Motif: m152f Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: n35 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 12 Weight: 333
Motif: k113b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: k184 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: k181a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333