k45a


Motif

Motif code: 
k45a
Name_eng: 
Fingers turn into water animals
Description: 

A man rides away from a woman or girl in a boat (on raft). When she tries to snatch a border of the boat (raft), he cuts her fingers off. The fingers turn into water animals

Name_rus: 
Пальцы превращаются в водных животных
Description_rus: 
Человек уплывает от женщины или девочки в лодке или на плоту. Когда она пытается ухватиться за край лодки (плота), он отрубает ей пальцы. Пальцы превращаются в водных животных
Motif type: 
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group: 
07 Etiology of plants and animals and of their peculiar features, particular animals as protagonists of cosmological stories, metamorphoses, weather and calendar
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: 
7

Linked traditions:
Bering Strait Inupiat (incl. King Island)
Netsilik
Caribou
Iglulik
Baffin Land Inuit
Labrador Inuit (Koksoagmiut)
Kuna; XVI century data on Eastern Panama

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: e9aa Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: k25a3 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: k45 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 12 Weight: 583
Motif: k45b Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 11 Weight: 545
Motif: k8b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: b27a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 8 Weight: 500
Motif: k10h Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 8 Weight: 500
Motif: m17a Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 12 Weight: 500
Motif: l102a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: i60a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: l59a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: f51c Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: l102 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 15 Weight: 333
Motif: e9a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 15 Weight: 333
Motif: f30a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 16 Weight: 313
Motif: d13h Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 10 Weight: 300
Motif: f91 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 10 Weight: 300
Motif: i123 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 7 Weight: 286
Motif: b38d Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 7 Weight: 286