l15b


Motif

Motif code: 
l15b
Name_eng: 
To kill with a reed
Description: 

Person can be killed only with a particular plant that normally is not used as a weapon

Name_rus: 
Убить тростником
Description_rus: 
Персонажа можно убить лишь определенным растением, которое обычно не служит для изготовления оружия
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: 
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
Motif analysis result tradition count all: 
10
ATU ID: 
Stith Thompson ID: 
*Z312

Linked traditions:
Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia)
Malecite, Passamaquoddy
Micmac
Wawenock, Abenaki, Penobscot
Plains Ojibwa
Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam
Chumash
Warao
Karijona
Ticuna (Tucuna)

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: k38f3 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: h37a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: j19b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: c32 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: b42a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: k184 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: l33c Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 10 Weight: 300
Motif: d13c Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 7 Weight: 286
Motif: l75 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 11 Weight: 273
Motif: m76 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: f84 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: l5e Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: k27o2 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 12 Weight: 250
Motif: d1a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: k8f Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: j41 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 13 Weight: 231
Motif: m29q Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 9 Weight: 222
Motif: b8 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 14 Weight: 214
Motif: l33b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 14 Weight: 214