m205


Motif

Name_eng: 
Birds set a city on fire
Description: 

Warriors lay siege to a city or palace. They catch or receive as a tribute the birds that live there, oil them or tie combustibles (tinder, wood chips, nutshells filled with pitch, etc.) to their bodies and sets them on fire. When released, the birds fly back to the city or palace. The fire starts there and the warriors achieve their objective

Name_rus: 
Птицы поджигают город
Description_rus: 
Воины, осаждающие город или дворец, ловят или получают в качестве выкупа живущих там птиц. Обмазывают их маслянистой жидкостью либо привязывают к ним предметы (скорлупу со смолой, стружки, трут и т.п.), которые затем поджигают. Отпущенные птицы летят обратно в город или дворец. Благодаря начавшемуся пожару, воины его захватывают
Motif type: 
Adventures and tricks
Motif group: 
10 Adventures
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

Linked traditions:
Areal IDTradition
3.3.4.2Wales
3.5.3.1Hungarians
4.1.4.1Early Russian written sources
4.2.1.1Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia)
4.3.3.1Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
5.2.2.1Armenians
9.1.5.7Mongols of Inner Mongolia

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: k38f3 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: k9a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: c32 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: k184 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: n12 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: m168b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: i7b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: l125a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 8 Weight: 250
Motif: n26 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: k35a2 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: c36 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 8 Weight: 250
Motif: n19 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: m39a4d Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: k27v3 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 9 Weight: 222
Motif: k139 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 14 Weight: 214
Motif: a37c Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200
Motif: k37e Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200
Motif: n28h Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200
Motif: k90a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 10 Weight: 200