i87f


Motif

Motif code: 
i87f
Name_eng: 
Suicide of the Narts
Description: 

A raсe of people who were bigger, stronger or otherwise different from the present day people lived in the past. They dissapeared after commiting suicide

Name_rus: 
Самоубийство нартов
Description_rus: 
До современных людей жили другие, отличавшиеся силой, ростом или иными качествами. Они исчезли после того, как покончили самоубийством.
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
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: 
6

Linked traditions:
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
Ossetians
Siberian Tatars
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Scythians

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: k113b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: j25a1 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: k181a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: f9g1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: n32 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 7 Weight: 286
Motif: k64c Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 7 Weight: 286
Motif: k124 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 11 Weight: 273
Motif: f54c Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 8 Weight: 250
Motif: n9 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: k76g Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 8 Weight: 250
Motif: i95b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 12 Weight: 250
Motif: m39a3b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 8 Weight: 250
Motif: k80a5 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 8 Weight: 250
Motif: i137 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: a32d2 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 14 Weight: 214
Motif: k93b4 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 14 Weight: 214
Motif: l81a1 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200
Motif: a24a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200
Motif: b110a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200