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Motif

Name_eng:

False mother rejected

Description:

A demonic or animal person steals a boy and pretends to be his real mother or father. The boy gets to know the truth, leaves the false parent

Name_rus:

Ложная мать отвергнута

Description_rus:

Персонаж похищает мальчика или скрывает его от его матери или отца, делает вид, что он(а) сам(а) его мать или отец. Похищенный узнает правду, бросает похитительницу или похитителя

Motif type:

Adventures and tricks

Motif group:

11 Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
11.1.2.1	Chukchi
11.1.3.2	Maritime Koryak (Alyutor)
11.2.1.1	Asiatic Eskimo (Sirenek, Naukan, Chaplino)
12.1.2.10	Dogrib, Slavey
12.1.2.7	Beaver
12.3.3.2	Coeur D'Alene, Kalispel (Pend d'Oreille; incl Spokane)
12.3.4.3	Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam
12.3.4.4	Lushootseed (Puget Sound: Puyallup, Nisqualmi, Snuqualmi, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Skagit)
12.3.4.6	Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, (Lower) Cowlitz
12.3.6.1	Western Sahaptin (Upper Cowlitz, Klikitat, Tenino, Umatilla, Yakima, Wallawalla)
12.3.7.2	Tillamook
12.3.7.8	Klamath, Modoc
12.3.8.1	Kutenai
12.4.2.4	Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
12.4.3.3	Naskapi
12.5.1.2	Malecite, Passamaquoddy
12.6.1.6	Wailaki, Mattole, Lassik, Sinkyone, Cahto
12.6.5.8	Kitanemuk
12.6.6.3	Cahuilla, Cupeño
12.7.1.1	Northern Paiute (=Paviotso)
12.7.1.6	Northern Shoshone
12.7.1.9	Ute
13.1.2.1	Assiniboine
13.1.4.2	Yankton/Yanktonai
13.3.4.2	Catawba, Tutelo
15.2.2.1	Warao
15.3.7.1	Ticuna (Tucuna)
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.2.2.1	Western Sami
4.2.2.2	Eastern Sami (including Inari, Skolts)
4.2.4.1	Votians
9.1.3.3	Tofa (Karagas)
9.10.1.1	Nanai
9.2.1.1	Mansi
9.2.2.1	Kets
9.2.2.2	Yughs
9.2.2.3	Southern Selkups
9.2.3.3	Enets