l23


Motif

Motif code: 
l23
Name_eng: 
Proteus
Description: 

Person gets hold of another. Trying to free himself, the latter turns into different materials, elements, animals or (Urarina and Setebo) orders different dangerous creature to attack the person

Name_rus: 
Протей
Description_rus: 
Пытаясь освободиться, схваченный персонаж последовательно превращается в различные вещества, материалы, животных или (урарина, сетебо) велит различным опасным животным атаковать схватившего его человека
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: 
3. Only those motifs that are found in Central and South America
Motif analysis result tradition count all: 
48

Linked traditions:
Dinka, Atuot, Nuer
Shilluk, Anuak
Mangbetu (Ngbetu), Mangbutu, Moru, Madi, Lugbara, Lendu (=Bale)
Papua–NewGuinea Highland Papuans:Trans New Guinea & unclassified:Chimbu,Gimi,KaugelHuli,Gadsup,Kuman,Kutubu,Foi (Foe),Kyaka,Kamano (Kafe),Mawatta,Kukukuku (=Anga,=Sambia;Manki,Nauti,Ejuti),Baruya,Kewa,Tembregak,Menya,Melpa,Wiru,Pondoma
Torricelli family: Valman, Samap, Arapesh (Upper, Coastal), Monumbo, Lilau, Ngaimbom; Moando (Banara); Menya, Olo
Timor: Amarasi, Tetum, Meto, Atoni (incl Mollo), Kédang (Lomblen island), Leti Islands (Leti, Moa, Lakor)
Ot Danum, Ngaju, Maanyan (Ma'anyan)
Tamil, Muthuvan, Marvar
Scotland
Ancient Italy: Latins, Etruscans, Magna Graecia
Poles
Slovakians
Greeks (modern)
Ancient Greece
Latvians
Setu
Finns
Finns
Karelians
Vepsians
Western Sami
Swedes
Danes
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
Byelarusians
Russians: Central part of Russian ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500: Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, eastern part of Smolensk provinces (most of Smolensk province is Belorussian ethnic territory)
Abkhaz
Mordvins
Chuvash
Napo (Quijo), Kanelo (“Jungle Kechua”)
Aguaruna, Huambiza
Urarina
Xipaya (Shipaya)
Shipibo, Conibo, Setebo
Amahuaca, Cashinahua, Sharanahua, Yaminahua, Yawanahua, Capanahua)
Sulu: Mapun, Samal, Sama, Taosug (Tausug), Badjaw
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Ukrainians: Northern dialects
Russians: Southern part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Belgorod, Voronezh, Tambov, Penza, Lipetsk, Orel, Kursk, Bryansk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Samara, Simbirsk and Saratov provinces)
Lutsi (Ludza)
Transylvanian Saksons
Rusyns, Hutsuls
Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
Eastern Prussia

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: l23d Shared traditions: 36 All traditions: 36 Weight: 1000
Motif: l23a Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 8 Weight: 1000
Motif: i50a1 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: m45b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: l23e Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 11 Weight: 1000
Motif: k100i Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 6 Weight: 1000
Motif: k113b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: l23c Shared traditions: 16 All traditions: 17 Weight: 941
Motif: l23b Shared traditions: 15 All traditions: 16 Weight: 938
Motif: k56a4d Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
Motif: k64c Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
Motif: b104b Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: f9g1 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: k27q1 Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 11 Weight: 818
Motif: m201 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif: k103a1 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 9 Weight: 778
Motif: a8a Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 9 Weight: 778
Motif: m191c Shared traditions: 13 All traditions: 17 Weight: 765
Motif: n35 Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 12 Weight: 750