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Motif

Name_eng:

The cuchoo: different legs

Description:

Person turns into the cuckoo so quickly that one of his or her legs remains bare or one of her braids not plaited. Now it is believed that the cuckoo has different legs or wings

Name_rus:

У кукушки разные ноги

Description_rus:

Персонаж превращается в кукушку. Это происходит так быстро, что одна нога остается необутой или одна коса незаплетенной. Поэтому считается, будто ноги или крылья кукушки разные

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.

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

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Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
10.3.2.1	Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.5.3	Kumyk, Terekemen
5.1.7.5	Lezgians, Archin, Kürin; Khinalug
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
9.1.1.1	Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
9.1.1.2	Southern Altai: Teleut
9.1.2.1	Shor
9.1.2.2	Khakas