k23


Motif

Motif code: 
k23
Name_eng: 
Battle with birds
Description: 

Birds attack the inhabitants of a distant land or a man who had got to this land

Name_rus: 
Сражение с птицами
Description_rus: 
Птицы нападают на жителей другого мира или на человека, попавшего в другой мир
Motif type: 
Adventures and tricks
Motif group: 
08 Queer and monstrous beings, creatures, objects and loci, folk beliefs related to particular phenomena and objects
Motif analysis result: 
2. Only those motifs that are found in America (including the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans)
3. Only those motifs that are found in Central and South America
4. All motifs of category 1 (cosmology) in sub-Saharan Africa and those motifs of category 2 (adventures) which are found in sub-Saharan Africa and widespread in the Indo-Pacific world with scarce or no cases in Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia
Motif analysis result tradition count all: 
35
ATU ID: 
Stith Thompson ID: 

Linked traditions:
Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
Chagga (Jagga; incl Wasu), Pare, Digo
Chin-Naga: Ao, Mao, Sema, Zeme, Liangmai, Kolren, Kom, Lhota, Rengma, Angami, Kabui, Tangkhul, Koirenf
Early Chinese written sources
Ancient Greece
Finns
Western Sami
Norwegians
Ingush
Georgians
Tungus (Evenki) of China (Solon, Birar, Oroqen, Manegir)
Nanai
Chukchi
Bering Strait Inupiat (incl. King Island)
Polar Inuit
Tlingit
Tsimshian
Bella Coola (Nuxalk)
Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo
Blackfoot
Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina)
Gros Ventre
Crow
Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam
Comox, Pentlatch
Western Sahaptin (Upper Cowlitz, Klikitat, Tenino, Umatilla, Yakima, Wallawalla)
Natchez (incl Avoyel)
Alabama, Koasati
Cherokee
Zuni
Lipan
Warihio (Guarijío), Tarahumara
Kuna; XVI century data on Eastern Panama
Kuikuro, Kalapalo
Kamayura

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: k22a Shared traditions: 21 All traditions: 25 Weight: 840
Motif: k23a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: k22 Shared traditions: 32 All traditions: 40 Weight: 800
Motif: f55a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: e6a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: k22b Shared traditions: 27 All traditions: 41 Weight: 659
Motif: m55 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: j19a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 9 Weight: 556
Motif: l31a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: c33a1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: b69b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: i112 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 10 Weight: 500
Motif: b32a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: i4d1 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: k27n3a1 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: j27a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: f68 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: m75b3 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: k1d Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429