h6c3


Motif

Name_eng: 
The stock and the otherworld
Description: 

Big migratory birds who fly like a wedge (stocks, cranes, swans, geese; Zugvögel in German) are connected with the world beyond (bring babies from there, carry children away to the unhuman loci, possess the water of life and death, etc.)

Name_rus: 
Аист и потусторонний мир
Description_rus: 
Крупные летящие клином птицы (аисты, журавли, лебеди, гуси – нем. Zugvögel) связаны с потусторонним миром (приносят оттуда детей, уносят детей в нечеловеческий мир, владеют живой и мертвой водой и пр.)
Motif type: 
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group: 
03 Cosmogony, the earth and the sky, etiology of the elements, natural and biological phenomena (fire, water, soil, thunderstorms, dream, etc.), cataclysms and cosmic threats, spirits of nature
04 Origin of death, diseases and hard life
07 Etiology of plants and animals and of their peculiar features, particular animals as protagonists of cosmological stories, metamorphoses, weather and calendar
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: 
14

Linked traditions:
Areal IDTradition
3.3.5.3Germans: 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
3.3.5.5Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.5.1.2Bulgarians
4.1.1.1Poles
4.1.1.2Kashubians, Poles of Polish Pomorie
4.1.1.3Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
4.1.1.4Czech
4.1.2.5Byelarusians
4.1.3.1Russians: 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)
4.1.3.3Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
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)
4.1.3.8Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.2.4.4Livonians
5.1.6.1Ingush

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: b122 Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 9 Weight: 889
Motif: m152f Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: k64c Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
Motif: k100i Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: b69b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: k22aa Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: b87c Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 15 Weight: 467
Motif: k56a5d Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 13 Weight: 462
Motif: i42g3 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 11 Weight: 455
Motif: i82f Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 11 Weight: 455
Motif: k103a1 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 9 Weight: 444
Motif: k56a4d Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: l108d Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 12 Weight: 417
Motif: i61a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 12 Weight: 417
Motif: b125a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: l42i1 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 15 Weight: 400
Motif: i37d1 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 10 Weight: 400
Motif: i100c Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: b33d1 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 13 Weight: 385