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Motif

Name_eng:

The wrong way to be born

Description:

Child is born not in a normal way but intentionally cutting his mother’s body. It is a sign of his malicious and/or supernatural nature

Name_rus:

Неправильное рождение

Description_rus:

Ребенок намеренно выходит из чрева матери не обычным образом, а проделав в ее теле отверстие и нередко убивая ее. Это признак его злокозненности и/или сверхъестественной мощи

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
10.2.3.3	Namuzi (Namuyi), Mosuo, Naxi; Pumi (Primi)
12.4.2.1	Menominee
12.4.2.4	Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
12.5.1.4	Lenape (Delaware)
12.5.2.1	Huron (incl Wyandot)
12.5.2.2	Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)
12.5.2.3	Tuscarora
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)