b122


Motif

Name_eng: 
The birds and the babies
Description: 

Birds (usually storks or geese) carry small children to the other world or bring them from there

Name_rus: 
Младенцы и птицы
Description_rus: 
Птицы (обычно журавли/аисты или гуси) уносят детей в иной мир или приносят их оттуда
Motif type: 
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group: 
05 Origin of human beings, ethnic groups, etiology of human anatomy, strange body configuration, ways of behavior, marriages before the establishment of the present norms
07 Etiology of plants and animals and of their peculiar features, particular animals as protagonists of cosmological stories, metamorphoses, weather and calendar
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: 
9

Linked traditions:
Areal IDTradition
3.3.5.3Germans: 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
4.1.1.4Czech
4.1.3.1Russians: 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)
4.1.3.3Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
4.1.3.6Russians: Southern part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Belgorod, Voronezh, Tambov, Penza, Lipetsk, Orel, Kursk, Bryansk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Samara, Simbirsk and Saratov provinces)
4.1.3.8Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.2.4.2Estonians
4.2.4.4Livonians
5.1.6.1Ingush

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: m152f Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: h6c3 Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 14 Weight: 571
Motif: b69b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: k56a4d Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: k64c Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: d7a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: b125a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: m39a3b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: l103b1 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: k27f2 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 12 Weight: 333
Motif: c32 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: n35 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 12 Weight: 333
Motif: j7a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 9 Weight: 333
Motif: c33b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: k100i Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: k167b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: f9g1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: i50a1 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: m38c3 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 9 Weight: 333