l19b2

Motif

Name_eng:

The nine-headed monster

Description:

A monster with nine heads is mentioned either alone or at the end of the row of creatures with ever bigger number of heads

Name_rus:

Девятиглавое чудовище

Description_rus:

Упоминается существо с 9 головами – единично, либо замыкая ряд существ с меньшим числом голов

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.2.4.13	Rwanda (incl Hutu, Tutsi, Kiga), Rundi, (Ma)Shi, Banyabungu; Rega
1.2.4.13	Rwanda (incl Hutu, Tutsi, Kiga), Rundi, (Ma)Shi, Banyabungu; Rega
1.2.6.1	Duala (Douala), Basa (Basaá), Kwiri (Kweli), Isubu
1.4.3.5	Masai
10.2.1.1	Early Chinese written sources
10.2.2.1	Chinese folklore: Anhui, Jiangxi and data without precise provinience (incl Hakka, Min Dong)
10.2.3.4	Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China
10.2.4.1	Koreans; Goguryeo
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.2.4	Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
3.3.2.8	Italians: Northeast (Trentino – Alto Adige, Veneto, Venezia Giulia, Southern Tirol, Friuli, Istria)
3.3.5.4	Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.4.1.1	Ancient Greece
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.1.3.1	Russians: 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)
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.1.3.3	Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
4.1.3.4	Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
4.1.3.7	Russian Pomors ("seasiders"): Lower Pechora
4.1.3.8	Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.2.1.3	Danes
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.2.4.5	Lutsi (Ludza)
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Karata, Akhvakh
5.1.7.5	Lezgians, Archin, Kürin; Khinalug
5.2.1.3	Svans
5.5.2.3	Dungan of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan
5.5.2.5	Salars
5.5.2.6	Hui of Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Qinghai (rare Hui texts from Southern and Eastern China are clustered with the Chinese ones)
6.2.1.1	Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
6.2.1.2	NE Tibetans (Amdo)
6.2.1.4	Lavrung, Jiarong; Qiang (incl rGyalrong)
6.3.2.1	Khmer
9.1.1.3	Northern Altai: Chelkan, Kumanda, Tubalar
9.1.5.2	Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)
9.1.5.6	Monguor (Tu), Shirongol
9.1.5.7	Mongols of Inner Mongolia
9.3.3.1	Tungus.Evenki) of Russian Far East
9.3.3.2	Tungus (Evenki) of China (Solon, Birar, Oroqen, Manegir)