l50

Motif

Name_eng:

Cliff ogre

Description:

A person kills those who are passing by him. Usually he does not attack them all of a sudden but first distracts their attention. Usually he throws down his victims into a precipice, lake, etc.

Name_rus:

Убийца стережет путников

Description_rus:

Персонаж убивает идущих мимо него путников. Обычно он не набрасывается на них неожиданно, но предварительно отвлекает внимание и нередко сталкивает свои жертвы куда-то вниз

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)

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:

Stith Thompson ID:

G321

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.1.1.2	Khoekhoe (=Hottentot; incl Nama, Korana); Damara
11.2.3.8	Polar Inuit
12.1.2.1	Tutchone
12.1.2.6	Kaska
12.1.2.7	Beaver
12.2.1.2	Tlingit
12.3.1.2	Chilkotin
12.3.2.1	Shuswap
12.3.3.1	Okanagon, Sanpoil
12.3.6.1	Western Sahaptin (Upper Cowlitz, Klikitat, Tenino, Umatilla, Yakima, Wallawalla)
12.3.6.2	Nez Perce
12.3.7.1	Lower Chinook (Chinook proper)
12.6.1.2	Wiyot
12.6.3.3	Wintu, Patwin, Nomlaki
12.6.3.4	Maidu, Nisenan, Konkov
12.7.1.1	Northern Paiute (=Paviotso)
12.7.1.6	Northern Shoshone
12.8.1.1	Hopi
12.8.1.2	Zuni
12.8.2.1	Eastern Keres (Cochiti, Sia, San Felipe, Santo Domingo, Santa Ana, Paguate, Seama)
12.8.3.1	Navajo
12.8.3.2	Jicarilla
12.8.3.5	Western Apache (White Mountain, San Carlos)
12.8.3.6	Lipan
12.8.4.1	Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai
13.1.5.1	Arapaho
13.2.2.1	Kiowa Apache
16.1.4.3	Toba (incl Pilaga)
3.4.1.1	Ancient Greece
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
5.2.1.1	Georgians
8.1.3.1	Arnhem Land: Enindhilyagwa (Groote Eilandt), KuTiwi, Yulengor, Mara, Oenpelli, Murngin, Roper River, Maung, Murinbata, Murngin (Duwal), Millingimbi, Goulburn Island, Ngulugwongga, Yirrkalla, Voctoria River Downs, Alawa, Anu, Kunwinjku