m87

Motif

Name_eng:

Invisible ghosts

Description:

Person enters a seemingly empty house and attempts to take certain things. Invisible beings prevent him from doing it or objects themselves hurt him

Name_rus:

В доме, где не видно хозяев

Description_rus:

Персонаж приходит в место, которое покинуто или кажется покинутым обитателями. Он пытается брать или трогать вещи, но невидимые хозяева мешают ему это делать, либо сами вещи ранят его

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

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:

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Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.4.4.4	Zande (Azande, incl Nzakara)
11.2.3.3	Netsilik
11.2.3.9	West Greenland
12.1.1.8	Athna
12.1.2.9	Chipewyan (Dëne Sųłıné)
12.2.1.1	Eyak
12.2.1.3	Haida
12.2.1.4	Tsimshian
12.2.2.2	Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)
12.2.2.3	Bella Coola (Nuxalk)
12.3.2.1	Shuswap
12.3.4.6	Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, (Lower) Cowlitz
12.3.5.1	Quinault
12.3.7.1	Lower Chinook (Chinook proper)
12.3.7.2	Tillamook
12.3.7.6	Takelma
12.3.7.7	Oregon Athabaskans: Lower Umpqua, Tututni (incl Joshua), Upper Coquille, Galice, Tolowa
16.1.3.1	Nivakle (=Chulupi, Ashluslay, Ajlujlay)
16.1.3.4	Mataco
16.1.4.1	Makka
16.1.4.3	Toba (incl Pilaga)