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Motif

Name_eng: 
The magic stick
Description: 

A stick is a tool to initiate processes which results have no rational explanation

Name_rus: 
Волшебная палочка
Description_rus: 
Палочка является инструментом совершения действий, результаты которых рационально необъяснимы
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: 
67

Linked traditions:
Areal IDTradition
1.2.1.2Zulu, Swazi
1.2.1.4Ndebele, Pedi, Thonga (incl Ronga), Hlengwe, Matabele (Tebele)
1.2.5.12Swahili, Midjikenda (incl Giryama), Nyika, Duruma; Ngindo, Kiluguru and other Islamic groups of the Eastern Coast of Africa
1.3.4.1Kposso, "Togo-Restvölker" (Adele, Akebu, Akposso, Bowiri/Bowili, Santrokofi, Lelemi, Borada Akrade, Teteman, Baakwa, Bowiri)
12.1.2.4Tahltan
12.1.2.6Kaska
12.3.1.1Carrier
3.1.2.1Arabs of Egypt
3.1.3.2Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
3.1.3.7Tunisia Arabs
3.2.1.4Somali
3.3.1.1Spain
3.3.1.2Portuguese
3.3.1.5Basques
3.3.2.1Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)
3.3.2.2Sicily
3.3.2.3Sardinia, Corsica
3.3.2.4Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
3.3.2.5Maltese
3.3.2.6Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
3.3.2.7Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.3.3.1Bretagne
3.3.3.3Wallons, Picardie
3.3.3.4Upper Brittany
3.3.3.5Occitanie (southern France): Limousin, Auvergne, Provence, Aquitaine, Albret, Gers, Aveyron (Rouerge), Armagnac, Landes, Gascogne, Vivarés, Roussillon, Pyrénées, Bearne, Guyenne, Bigorre, Ain, Hautes Alpes, Ariège, Vienne, Aude, French part of Swiss
3.3.4.1Ireland
3.3.4.3Scotland
3.3.4.4England
3.3.5.1Dutch, Flemish
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
3.3.5.4Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
3.3.5.5Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.3.5.6Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
3.3.5.7Eastern Prussia
3.5.1.1Greeks (modern)
3.5.2.4Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
3.5.3.1Hungarians
3.5.3.2Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.1.5Slovakians
4.1.2.3Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.1.3.2Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.2.1.3Danes
4.2.1.4Swedes
4.2.3.1Finns
4.2.4.2Estonians
4.2.5.1Latvians
4.3.3.2Bashkirs
5.1.4.1Karachays, Balkar
5.2.2.5Kurds
5.3.2.2Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.3.2.3Arabs of Iraq
5.3.3.1Yemen
5.4.3.1Yagnobi
5.5.1.1Kazakh
5.5.1.2Kara Kalpak
5.6.2.12Marathi (incl. Bhamta; incl. Mumbai area)
5.6.2.14Bengali, Maithili
5.6.2.18Oriya (incl. Dom/Domba/Dombo, Ghasi, Bhat and other Oriya-speaking castes of Odisha)
5.6.2.8Kashmiri
5.6.3.3Kannada, Lingayat, Halakki
6.1.1.4Bhuiya (now Aryans, originally Munda; Rahman 1955: 203), Baiga, Bhaina, Bhumia (subgroup of Baiga, incl Bharia, formerly Munda, now speak Indo-Aryan languages of neighboring groups)
6.2.3.6Kuki, Chiru, Falam (Hallam), Chin (Meitei =Manipuri, Khami, =Kumi), Lakher, Mizo (Lushei), Anal, Pawi (Lai), Purum, Koireng, Milhiem, Kolhen, Mru
6.3.1.6Thai of Vietnam, Tai Lue, Khao (Kho, Tai Don, White Tai), Tai Dam (Black Tai), Nung; Buyi; Shui
6.3.1.7Arakan, Chakma, Khyang
6.3.1.9Khamti, Ahom
6.3.2.1Khmer
6.4.7.1Northern Luzon: Apayao, Bontoc, Nabaloi (Ibaloi), Ifugao, Igorot (highland people, not specified), Ilocan, Ilongot, Isneg, Kalinga, Kankanay, Tingian (Tinggian, Bilongan Itneg); Ibanag, Kasiguran Agta, Keley-i Kallahan

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: k56a5a Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 9 Weight: 1000
Motif: i22g1 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif: k27f3 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif: m109d Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 2 Weight: 1000
Motif: k85a Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 9 Weight: 889
Motif: m38c3 Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 9 Weight: 889
Motif: k37b Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 12 Weight: 833
Motif: j51a2 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: k107a2 Shared traditions: 12 All traditions: 15 Weight: 800
Motif: k25a4a Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 10 Weight: 800
Motif: j51a1 Shared traditions: 15 All traditions: 19 Weight: 789
Motif: j51a Shared traditions: 15 All traditions: 19 Weight: 789
Motif: k149 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 9 Weight: 778
Motif: b104a Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 9 Weight: 778
Motif: h7g Shared traditions: 14 All traditions: 18 Weight: 778
Motif: n38 Shared traditions: 17 All traditions: 22 Weight: 773
Motif: k128a Shared traditions: 17 All traditions: 22 Weight: 773
Motif: h7c1 Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 13 Weight: 769
Motif: m38c2 Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 13 Weight: 769