k8b


Motif

Name_eng: 
Woman is soul of a whale
Description: 

Raven gets inside a whale where he sees a woman who asks him not to touch an inner organ of the whale (usually its heart) or a burning lamp. Raven touches it, woman disappears, the whale dies

Name_rus: 
Женщина – душа кита
Description_rus: 
Ворон оказывается в чреве кита; находящаяся внутри женщина просит его не трогать какой-то орган кита (обычно сердце) или горящую лампу. Ворон нарушает запрет, женщина пропадает, кит подыхает
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.
2. Only those motifs that are found in America (including the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans)
Motif analysis result tradition count all: 
6
ATU ID: 
Stith Thompson ID: 

Linked traditions:
Areal IDTradition
11.2.1.4Central Yupik
11.2.1.5Nunivak Island
11.2.1.7Chugach
11.2.2.1Bering Strait Inupiat (incl. King Island)
11.2.3.6Baffin Land Inuit
11.2.3.7Labrador Inuit (Koksoagmiut)

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: m53e Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
Motif: k45a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: f51c Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: k25a3 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: m17a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 12 Weight: 333
Motif: b38d Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 7 Weight: 286
Motif: l59a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 8 Weight: 250
Motif: k10h Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 8 Weight: 250
Motif: k45 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 12 Weight: 250
Motif: h1f Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: m75d Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 9 Weight: 222
Motif: a31a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 9 Weight: 222
Motif: k51a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 14 Weight: 214
Motif: f91 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 10 Weight: 200
Motif: i60a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200
Motif: l102a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200
Motif: m64 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 15 Weight: 200
Motif: f30a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 16 Weight: 188
Motif: e9i3 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 22 Weight: 182