k65e1


Motif

Motif code: 
k65e1
Name_eng: 
Midwife helps the toad-woman
Description: 

A woman is summoned to help supernatural being as a midwife (to baptize a baby). In the human world, this being has a form of a toad or frog

Name_rus: 
Повитуха у жабы
Description_rus: 
Женщина принимает роды (крестит ребенка) у существа, которое в мире людей имеет облик жабы или лягушки
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: 
11

Linked traditions:
Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
Ireland
Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
Slovakians
Bulgarians
Latvians
Norwegians
Byelarusians
Arabs of Kuwait, Bahrein, Qatar, Emirates, Oman,
Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: m45b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: m60a3 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: b124 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: a32m Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: k73a9 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: m157d Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 14 Weight: 429
Motif: m201 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: k56a8c Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: i61a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 12 Weight: 333
Motif: k149 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 9 Weight: 333
Motif: k103c Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 9 Weight: 333
Motif: b48d Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: k113b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: k100i Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: f9g1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: j25a1 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: i82e Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: b33d1 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 13 Weight: 308
Motif: h24d Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 13 Weight: 308