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Motif

Name_eng:

Ears of the hare

Description:

Person beats hares, foxes or other medium size animals who became helpless (usually closed in his house). Tale explains why tips of the animals' ears or tails have a particular color

Name_rus:

Заячьи уши

Description_rus:

Человек бьет оказавшихся беззащитными (обычно запертыми в его доме) зайцев, лисиц, других небольших зверей (одного или многих). История объясняет окраску кончиков ушей и хвоста у этих животных

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

07 Etiology of plants and animals and of their peculiar features, particular animals as protagonists of cosmological stories, metamorphoses, weather and calendar

Motif analysis result:

1. Only those Old World motifs that are not found in America besides among the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans.

2. Only those motifs that are found in America (including the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans)

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
10.3.1.1	Ainu
11.1.1.1	Forest (Upper Kolyma) Yukaghir (Oduls)
11.1.1.2	Tundra (Lower Kolyma) Yukaghir (Waduls)
11.2.1.1	Asiatic Eskimo (Sirenek, Naukan, Chaplino)
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
9.1.5.2	Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)
9.10.1.1	Nanai
9.10.1.2	Olcha (Ulch)
9.10.1.3	Udeghe
9.10.1.4	Oroch
9.10.1.6	Negidal
9.2.3.3	Enets
9.3.1.1	Central Yakuts (Sakha)
9.3.1.2	Dolgans
9.3.2.1	Western Tungus/Evenki: Podkamennaya Tunguska, Katanga, Nepa, Kamenka, Upper Lena
9.3.2.3	Baikal RegionTungus/Evenki
9.3.2.4	Ilimpii Tungus/Evenki