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k38f5
Motif
Motif code:
k38f5
Name_eng:
Fire-breathing horse
Description:
From the mouth of a horse fire is coming ot the horse itself is of fire
Name_rus:
Огнедышащий конь
Description_rus:
Изо рта коня вырывается пламя либо весь он огненный
Motif type:
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group:
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:
24
Linked traditions:
Old and New Testament
Viet, Muong
Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
Ancient Italy: Latins, Etruscans, Magna Graecia
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
Greeks (modern)
Ancient Greece
Lithuanians
Votians
Finns
Norwegians
Byelarusians
Russians: 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)
Abaza (Abazins)
Ossetians
Shor
Wallons, Picardie
Salars
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Ukrainians: Northern dialects
Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
Russians: 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)
Transylvanian Saksons
Motifs correlation (top 20):
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f101
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
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k64c
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
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i87f
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif:
k100i
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif:
m152f
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif:
k113b
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif:
k80a5
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 8 Weight: 625
Motif:
i87e
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif:
g25
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif:
i61a
Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 12 Weight: 583
Motif:
i59b3
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
Motif:
f57
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
Motif:
a32m
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
Motif:
m39a3b
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 8 Weight: 500
Motif:
m75b3
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif:
l85d
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif:
f9g1
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif:
i137
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif:
l16b
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 8 Weight: 500