m97


Motif

Motif code: 
m97
Name_eng: 
The blind is directed by trees
Description: 

Person is lost or becomes blind. He walks asking different trees their names and makes decisions according to their answers reaching ultimately his destination

Name_rus: 
Ослепший расспрашивает деревья
Description_rus: 
Ослепнув или оказавшись вдали от цели, персонаж идет, натыкаясь на деревья различных пород и обращается к каждому с вопросом или с просьбой. В конце концов он достигает цели
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)
5. Motifs shared by traditions of the Columbian Plateau (with adjacent Pacific Coast) and Central and Eastern Algonkians, with no or few cases in between (northern Plains)
Motif analysis result tradition count all: 
26
Stith Thompson ID: 
D1313.4.

Linked traditions:
Estonians
Western Sami
Eastern Sami (including Inari, Skolts)
Kets
Chipewyan (Dëne Sųłıné)
Gwich'in (Kutchin, Loucheux)
Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario)
Algonquin, unspecified Algonkians of the Midwest (probably Old Algonquin)
Western Woods Cree
Western Swampy Cree (incl. Rock Cree)
Eastern Swamy Cree
Attikamek
Menominee
Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo
Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)
Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina)
Arapaho
Iowa
Gros Ventre
Plains Cree
Plains Ojibwa
Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)
Okanagon, Sanpoil
Kutenai
Shasta; Chimariko

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: m97a2 Shared traditions: 13 All traditions: 13 Weight: 1000
Motif: m97a1 Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 9 Weight: 1000
Motif: b95a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: m66a Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 8 Weight: 750
Motif: f45a1 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: l5e Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: m82 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 9 Weight: 667
Motif: b101 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 9 Weight: 667
Motif: m74c Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: j12l Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 8 Weight: 625
Motif: m13a Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 10 Weight: 600
Motif: b36c Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 15 Weight: 600
Motif: h37a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: m61a2 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: m69 Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 17 Weight: 588
Motif: m29j Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 12 Weight: 583
Motif: m53b Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 16 Weight: 563
Motif: m30a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 9 Weight: 556
Motif: m32a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 9 Weight: 556