i140


Motif

Motif code: 
i140
Name_eng: 
The staff of Moses
Description: 

A staff that was thrown on the ground turns into an alive snake

Name_rus: 
Жезл Моисея
Description_rus: 
Брошенный наземь жезл превращается в живую змею
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: 
3

Linked traditions:
Old and New Testament
Aramaic (Syrians)
Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: l40c Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: n39 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: h1f Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: j62b1 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: k180 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: l94c Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: b88 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: c8c1 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: f97a5 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200
Motif: k32b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200
Motif: m138a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200
Motif: b2f2 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200
Motif: i4e Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 6 Weight: 167
Motif: b111 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 6 Weight: 167
Motif: m155 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 6 Weight: 167
Motif: m114k Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 14 Weight: 143
Motif: m147a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 14 Weight: 143
Motif: i13e Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 7 Weight: 143
Motif: l16b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 8 Weight: 125