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Motif

Name_eng: 
Days of week are (demonic) persons
Description: 

In folk narratives days of week (usually Friday and Wednesday) are (female) persons of more or less recognizable demonic nature

Name_rus: 
Дни недели – (демонические) персонажи
Description_rus: 
В повествовательном фольклоре дни недели (чаще всего пятница и среда) являются особыми (женскими) персонажами, имеющими более или менее выраженную демоническую природу
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: 
13

Linked traditions:
Areal IDTradition
3.3.5.4Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
3.5.1.2Bulgarians
3.5.3.2Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
3.5.4.1Gagauz
4.1.1.5Slovakians
4.1.2.1Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.3Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.1.2.5Byelarusians
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)
4.1.3.6Russians: 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)
4.3.2.2Mordvins
5.1.6.1Ingush

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: i132b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: i132a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: i59b3 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
Motif: k64c Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
Motif: a8a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 9 Weight: 556
Motif: h24d Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 13 Weight: 538
Motif: n19 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: b69b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: k80a5 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 8 Weight: 500
Motif: j7a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 9 Weight: 444
Motif: k73a9 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: k107e Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: a32m Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: h33a Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 14 Weight: 429
Motif: b124 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: i95b Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 12 Weight: 417
Motif: i136 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 12 Weight: 417
Motif: i61a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 12 Weight: 417
Motif: j47a1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400