m71

Motif

Name_eng:

Picked up piece of wood

Description:

Trickster floats down the river or falls from the height and turns into a piece of wood or into a wooden object. Somebody picks it up. Eventually, the trickster acquires his real self, usually in the host's absence

Name_rus:

Подобранная деревяшка

Description_rus:

Персонаж (обычно унесенный рекой или упавший с высоты) превращается в деревяшку. Кто-нибудь подбирает ее. Затем персонаж принимает свой истинный облик – обычно в отсутствие хозяев

Motif type:

Adventures and tricks

Motif group:

11 Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
12.2.2.2	Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)
12.3.2.1	Shuswap
12.3.2.2	Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)
12.3.2.3	Lillooet
12.3.3.1	Okanagon, Sanpoil
12.3.4.2	Sechelt (incl Sisiatl), Squamish, Halcomelem
12.3.4.3	Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam
12.3.4.6	Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, (Lower) Cowlitz
12.3.6.1	Western Sahaptin (Upper Cowlitz, Klikitat, Tenino, Umatilla, Yakima, Wallawalla)
12.3.8.1	Kutenai
12.6.1.1	Yurok
12.6.1.3	Karok
14.3.4.6	Paez, Guambia, Pijao; Ilama culture
14.4.2.2	Northern Peru: Sierra (Kechua-speaking communities, Cajamarca, Ancash, Huanuco and San Martin departments; Chavin pre-Columbian iconography; Spanish sources of XVI-XVII centuries)
14.4.2.3	Lima dep: Costa and adjacent Sierra (Spanish, Kechua, and Jacaru-speaking communities, mostly in Pachacamac, Cajatambo, Canta, Huarochirí; Spanish sources of XVI-XVII centuries)
15.5.1.3	Machiguenga