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Motif

Name_eng:

One-sided child

Description:

Person is born as half of a child or loses his or her half in an accident. The person does not belong to any category of supernatural beings and usually turns into normal girl or young man

Name_rus:

Ребенок-половинка

Description_rus:

Персонаж рожден в виде половины человека или становится таковым в результате несчастного случая. Он или она не принадлежит к особой категории мифических существ-половинок и обычно обретает телесную полноту

Motif type:

Adventures and tricks

Motif group:

10 Adventures

Motif analysis result:

1. Only those Old World motifs that are not found in America besides among 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:

ATU ID:

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Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.2.4.7	Luba (Baluba, Luba-Katanga, Shaba), (Ba)Holoholo, Tumbwe, Bena-Piana, Tabwa, Benabena-Mitumba, Zela, Bene-Marungu
1.4.1.2	Arabs of Sudan
10.2.4.1	Koreans; Goguryeo
2.1.1.1	Malagasy
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
3.1.2.2	Arabs of Libya
3.1.3.3	Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
3.1.3.7	Tunisia Arabs
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.2.4	Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
3.3.2.8	Italians: Northeast (Trentino – Alto Adige, Veneto, Venezia Giulia, Southern Tirol, Friuli, Istria)
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
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
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.6.1.1	Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
5.6.2.9	Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
6.4.3.2	Batak (Toba, Dairi)
6.4.3.6	Simeulue, Nias
6.4.4.1	Ot Danum, Ngaju, Maanyan (Ma'anyan)
6.4.4.3	Dusun, Murut, Kelabit, Tombonuwo, Bajau, Tidong, Rungus
6.4.4.4	Bidayuh (incl. Maloh), Iban (Sea Dayak), Sakarram; Brunei
6.4.5.1	Yavanese, Kalang, Madura
6.4.5.3	Bali, Lombok
6.4.7.5	Mindanao: Blaan (Bilaan), Bagobo, Bukidnon, Cotabato, Hiligáynon, Binukid, Magindaan (=Magindanao: main Muslim population), Mandaya, Mansaka, Manobo (Agusan, Ata, Dibabawon, Sarangani, Ilianen), Maranao, Subanon (=Subanun), Subanen, Tboli
6.4.8.10	Northern Halmahera Papuans: Galela, Loda, Pagu, Modole, Tabaru (Tobaru), Tobelo, Tidore, Ternate
6.4.8.11	Ceram: Alune and Wemale (West Ceram), Patasiwa (Ceram), Honitetu (West Ceram Highlands); Nusawele, Hatuolu, Huaolu, Patasiwa; Ambon; Buru
6.4.8.12	Kei Islands, Tanimbar Islands, Aru Islands, Watubele Islands, Babar Island
6.4.8.13	Numfoor, Warope, Wamesa (Wandamen, Windesi)
6.4.8.5	Roti
6.4.8.9	Sangir Islands
7.2.5.2	Ulithi, Ngulu
7.2.5.6	Marshall Islands, incl Ailinglapalap, Arno, Jaluit, Kili, Lae, Maloelap, Majuro, Ratak, Wotho, Ujae, Jaluit (=Jalooj), Namdrik
9.10.1.1	Nanai
9.3.1.1	Central Yakuts (Sakha)