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m120a
Motif
Name_eng:
Cannibal mourner
Description:
Somebody dies, animal person suggests to be a mourner, eats the corpse
Name_rus:
Плачея-трупоед
Description_rus:
Персонаж притворяется плакальщиком, съедает покойника
Motif type:
Adventures and tricks
Motif group:
11 Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior
Motif analysis result:
1. Only those Old World motifs that are not found in America besides among the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans.
Motif analysis result tradition count all:
18
ATU ID:
*37
Stith Thompson ID:
K931
Linked traditions:
Areal ID
Tradition
4.1.2.2
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
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
4.1.3.3
Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
4.1.3.4
Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
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)
4.2.2.2
Eastern Sami (including Inari, Skolts)
4.2.3.1
Finns
4.2.3.2
Karelians
4.2.3.3
Vepsians
4.3.1.1
Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
4.3.2.2
Mordvins
4.3.3.1
Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
5.1.3.3
Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
6.2.1.1
Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
6.2.2.1
Lepcha
Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif:
k168b
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif:
m39a3b
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 8 Weight: 750
Motif:
l103b1
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 8 Weight: 750
Motif:
k73b7
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif:
k113b
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif:
f9g1
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif:
m152f
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif:
i50a1
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif:
m191c
Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 17 Weight: 647
Motif:
k56a5d
Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 13 Weight: 615
Motif:
i98b
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 10 Weight: 600
Motif:
n35
Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 12 Weight: 583
Motif:
l110c
Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 14 Weight: 571
Motif:
k64c
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
Motif:
k56a4d
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
Motif:
m78c
Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 14 Weight: 571
Motif:
l23b
Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 16 Weight: 563
Motif:
k80a3
Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 16 Weight: 563
Motif:
m39a2b
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 9 Weight: 556