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Motif

Name_eng:

Comb becomes a thicket

Description:

Running away from a dangerous being, person throws a comb (a brush) that turns into mighty obstacle (usually a thicket) on the way of the pursuer. (In South America the motif is probably of European origin)

Name_rus:

Гребень-чаща

Description_rus:

Спасаясь бегством, персонаж бросает позади себя гребень (щетку), который превращается в препятствие на (почти всегда в чащу) пути преследователя. (В Южной Америке мотив с высокой вероятностью европейского происхождения)

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:

129

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.4.1.3	Kordofan
10.3.2.4	Japan AD 700-1700
11.1.1.1	Forest (Upper Kolyma) Yukaghir (Oduls)
11.1.1.2	Tundra (Lower Kolyma) Yukaghir (Waduls)
11.1.3.4	Kamchadal
12.1.1.2	Upper Kuskokwim (Kolchan)
12.1.1.8	Athna
12.1.2.2	Tagish
12.2.1.3	Haida
12.2.1.4	Tsimshian
12.2.2.1	Heiltsuk (Bellabella), Oowekeeno
12.2.2.2	Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)
12.2.2.3	Bella Coola (Nuxalk)
12.2.2.4	Nootka (Nu-chah-nulth), Makah
12.3.5.2	Quileute, Chemakum (Hoh)
12.4.2.3	Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree, Northern Saulteaux)
12.4.2.4	Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
12.4.3.2	Montagnais
12.8.2.2	Tewa (San Juan, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, Tesuque, Nambé; Hano), Tiwa (Taos, Picuris; Sandia, Isleta), Towa (Jemez)
13.1.1.1	Blackfoot
13.1.3.4	Arikara
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.6	Galicians
3.3.2.1	Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)
3.3.2.3	Sardinia, Corsica
3.3.2.4	Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
3.3.2.6	Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
3.3.2.8	Italians: Northeast (Trentino – Alto Adige, Veneto, Venezia Giulia, Southern Tirol, Friuli, Istria)
3.3.3.1	Bretagne
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.3.3.4	Upper Brittany
3.3.3.5	Occitanie (southern France): Limousin, Auvergne, Provence, Aquitaine, Albret, Gers, Aveyron (Rouerge), Armagnac, Landes, Gascogne, Vivarés, Roussillon, Pyrénées, Bearne, Guyenne, Bigorre, Ain, Hautes Alpes, Ariège, Vienne, Aude, French part of Swiss
3.3.4.4	England
3.3.5.4	Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.3.5.6	Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
3.3.5.7	Eastern Prussia
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
3.5.2.1	Albanians
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.2.4	Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
3.5.4.1	Gagauz
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.1.2	Kashubians, Poles of Polish Pomorie
4.1.1.3	Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.3	Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.1.3.1	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)
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.1.3.4	Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
4.1.3.5	Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
4.1.3.6	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)
4.1.3.7	Russian Pomors ("seasiders"): Lower Pechora
4.1.3.8	Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.2.2.1	Western Sami
4.2.2.2	Eastern Sami (including Inari, Skolts)
4.2.2.4	Ingrians
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.3.3	Vepsians
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.2.4.5	Lutsi (Ludza)
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.1.5.2	Nogai
5.1.5.3	Kumyk, Terekemen
5.1.6.1	Ingush
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.1.2	Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.2.2.5	Kurds
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.4.2.7	Bukhara Arabs
5.4.2.8	Uzbek
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.1.2	Kara Kalpak
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
5.5.2.5	Salars
6.2.2.2	Kirati (Kiranti): Rai (incl Thulung), Limbu, Newar
6.2.2.3	Mustang
6.4.4.1	Ot Danum, Ngaju, Maanyan (Ma'anyan)
7.2.1.3	Tuvalu (Ellice)
9.1.1.3	Northern Altai: Chelkan, Kumanda, Tubalar
9.1.3.1	Tuvinians of Tuva
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
9.1.5.1	Darkhad
9.1.5.3	Mongols (Khalkha)
9.1.5.6	Monguor (Tu), Shirongol
9.1.5.7	Mongols of Inner Mongolia
9.10.1.1	Nanai
9.10.1.3	Udeghe
9.10.1.4	Oroch
9.10.2.1	Nivkh
9.2.1.1	Mansi
9.2.1.2	Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.2.1.3	Northern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.2.2.1	Kets
9.2.2.3	Southern Selkups
9.2.2.4	Northern Selkups
9.2.3.1	Tundra Nenets
9.2.3.3	Enets
9.3.1.1	Central Yakuts (Sakha)
9.3.1.2	Dolgans
9.3.1.4	Northwestern Yakuts (Sakha): Yessey, Anabar, Olenyok and Lower Lena Basins
9.3.1.5	Northeastern Yakuts (Sakha): Yana, Indigirka and Kolyma Basins
9.3.2.1	Western Tungus/Evenki: Podkamennaya Tunguska, Katanga, Nepa, Kamenka, Upper Lena
9.3.2.3	Baikal RegionTungus/Evenki
9.3.4.2	Evens (Lamuts) of Kamchatka