l1b

Motif

Name_eng:

Bear-woman and her sister

Description:

A young woman turns into monstrous bear. She kills most of the people besides her younger sister (Ojibwa: younger sister of her former husband). Their brothers return from a hunt, kill the bear or she dies pursuing them

Name_rus:

Медведица и ее сестра

Description_rus:

Молодая женщина превращается в чудовищную медведицу, убивает большинство людей, кроме младшей сестры (оджибва: младшей сестры бывшего мужа). Их братья (или один брат) возвращаются с охоты, убивают медведицу или она гибнет, преследуя их

Motif type:

Adventures and tricks

Motif group:

10 Adventures

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:

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Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
12.2.2.3	Bella Coola (Nuxalk)
12.3.1.1	Carrier
12.3.1.2	Chilkotin
12.3.2.1	Shuswap
12.4.2.4	Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
12.4.4.1	Plains Cree
12.5.1.3	Wawenock, Abenaki, Penobscot
12.8.3.2	Jicarilla
13.1.1.1	Blackfoot
13.1.1.2	Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina)
13.1.1.3	Gros Ventre
13.1.2.1	Assiniboine
13.1.3.1	Crow
13.1.3.4	Arikara
13.1.4.6	Omaha, Ponca
13.1.4.8	Iowa
13.1.5.1	Arapaho
13.1.5.2	Cheyenne
13.2.1.2	Wichita; Spiro Mound iconography
13.2.2.2	Kiowa