l90e


Motif

Motif code: 
l90e
Name_eng: 
Heads on stakes
Description: 

Stakes with human head on them stand near the house of a dangerous person but one stake is empty. It is supposed that this one is prepared for the head of the hero

Name_rus: 
Головы на кольях
Description_rus: 
У дома опасного персонажа на колья насажены человеческие головы, а на одном головы нет. Предполагается, что там должна оказаться голова героя повествования
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: 
16

Linked traditions:
Hungarians
Bulgarians
Serbs, Monte Negro,
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Estonians
Karelians
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)
Abkhaz
Mordvins
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
Lutsi (Ludza)
Rusyns, Hutsuls
Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: n19 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: k73a9 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: k113b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: f9g1 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: k181a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: i122 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: m152f Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: m39a3b Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 8 Weight: 625
Motif: m201 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: k30b Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 14 Weight: 571
Motif: k107e Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
Motif: b123 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
Motif: k56b1 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 9 Weight: 556
Motif: a8a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 9 Weight: 556
Motif: k56a2b Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 11 Weight: 545
Motif: k67h Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 11 Weight: 545
Motif: m191c Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 17 Weight: 529
Motif: k27f2 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 12 Weight: 500
Motif: n28f Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500