Don Cossaks



Tradition title rus: 
Донские казаки
Areal ID: 
1.4.3.9
Areal: 
Language: 
Tradition analysis result motif count all: 
8.00
Tradition analysis result motif count cosmo: 
4.00
Motifs: 

Motif

b16c


Name_eng: 
Salt-grinding mill
Description: 

Magic mill is ordered to grind salt but not ordered to stop. It sinks into ocean and continues to work making the water salty




Motif

i128


Name_eng: 
Ursa major is a dipper
Description: 

Ursa major is a dipper, a ladle




Motif

b42q


Name_eng: 
Ursa major is a carriage
Description: 

Ursa major is identified with a carriage, a cart




Motif

c3


Name_eng: 
Snakes stops up a hole in the Noah’s arch
Description: 

When a hole is opened in the arch (rare: in the ground) from which a torrent of water flows, a snake (eel, frog) stops it up with its own body




Motif

e12


Name_eng: 
The animated drawing
Description: 

Person draws an object or creature and it becomes alive




Motif

l110


Name_eng: 
The devourer
Description: 

A demonic being swallows a multitude of people and animals. When it is killed and cut open, the swallowed ones come out alive or are revived




Motif

m114b1


Name_eng: 
What is the fattest, sweetest, swiftest?
Description: 

Answering to a question what is the fatties, sweetest, swiftest, etc., the clever person names abstract notions and non-material values (and a fool names particular objects or creatures)




Motif

m118


Name_eng: 
Source of values is destroyed imprudently
Description: 

Person or animal gets access to values that are inside an animal, a tree, a rock or other enclosure. Later he himself or more often somebody else tries to do the same but destroys source of values, blocks access to it or makes it too dangerous





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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Don Cossaks
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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Byelarusians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Mari (Cheremis)
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Bashkirs
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Catalan
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Latvians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 2 Tradition: Lithuanians

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Czech
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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Germans: 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
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Don Cossaks
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Latvians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Finns
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Norwegians
Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 3 Tradition: Swedes