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Motif

Name_eng: 
Bear-wife
Description: 

Man marries a polar bear or grizzly who becomes a woman or a woman who becomes a bear

Name_rus: 
Жена – медведица
Description_rus: 
Человек берет в жены медведицу (белую или гризли), принимающую облик женщины, либо женщину, принимающую облик медведицы
Motif type: 
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group: 
05 Origin of human beings, ethnic groups, etiology of human anatomy, strange body configuration, ways of behavior, marriages before the establishment of the present norms
Motif analysis result: 
2. Only those motifs that are found in America (including the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans)
Motif analysis result tradition count all: 
17

Linked traditions:
Areal IDTradition
11.1.2.1Chukchi
11.2.1.1Asiatic Eskimo (Sirenek, Naukan, Chaplino)
11.2.1.2St. Lawrence Island Yupik
11.2.2.1Bering Strait Inupiat (incl. King Island)
11.2.2.2North Alaskan Inupiat
11.2.3.1Mackenzie Delta
11.2.3.5Iglulik
12.1.1.7Han
12.1.1.8Athna
12.1.1.9Upper Tanana (Nebesna)
12.1.2.1Tutchone
12.1.2.10Dogrib, Slavey
12.1.2.2Tagish
12.1.2.4Tahltan
12.2.1.4Tsimshian
12.2.2.3Bella Coola (Nuxalk)
12.4.4.1Plains Cree

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: k27n3c1 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 8 Weight: 875
Motif: k32k Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif: k1d Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: K27n3c2 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: k32c Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 8 Weight: 625
Motif: i46d Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: k27p2 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 12 Weight: 583
Motif: k27y1 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 9 Weight: 556
Motif: i50b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: b42o Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: f91 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 10 Weight: 500
Motif: m82a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: k27n3a1 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: m94a Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 13 Weight: 462
Motif: i123 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: m190 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: f81 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 12 Weight: 417
Motif: m46e Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 22 Weight: 409
Motif: l102 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 15 Weight: 400