i56a


Motif

Motif code: 
i56a
Name_eng: 
In the land of the ghosts human being is an evil spirit
Description: 

When a man who had got to the land of spirits touches a local dweller the latter dies or becomes sick

Name_rus: 
Человек есть злой дух в мире духов
Description_rus: 
Когда попавший в иной мир человек касается местных обитателей, те заболевают или умирают
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: 
19

Linked traditions:
Kazakh
Buryats: Western (cis Baikal)
Tuvinians of Tuva
Tofa (Karagas)
Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
Nganasans
Central Yakuts (Sakha)
Dolgans
Baikal RegionTungus/Evenki
Western Tungus/Evenki: Podkamennaya Tunguska, Katanga, Nepa, Kamenka, Upper Lena
Sym Tungus/Evenki
Evens (Lamuts)
Uilta (Orok)
Nivkh
Forest (Upper Kolyma) Yukaghir (Oduls)
Asiatic Eskimo (Sirenek, Naukan, Chaplino)
Tlingit
Western Yakuts (Sakha): Olekma and Vilyuy Basins
Northeastern Yakuts (Sakha): Yana, Indigirka and Kolyma Basins

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: l42f Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 6 Weight: 1000
Motif: k52c1 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
Motif: e13 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif: m140b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: k89a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: m140a Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 9 Weight: 667
Motif: k32h2 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: b64a Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 9 Weight: 667
Motif: b72a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: b42h2 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: l5h Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: m186 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 12 Weight: 583
Motif: m133 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
Motif: b45b Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 11 Weight: 545
Motif: i56 Shared traditions: 19 All traditions: 35 Weight: 543
Motif: b74 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 13 Weight: 538
Motif: b81 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 13 Weight: 538
Motif: b68a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: m78e Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500