b73a


Motif

Name_eng: 
The cuchoo: in search of lost horse
Description: 

A girl (with her brother; two small brothers) is (are) in search of the horse or cattle or the girl is in search of her lost brother. She (alone or with her brother; both brothers) turns into a bird (usually a cuckoo; or both siblings turn into birds) that cries in specific way

Name_rus: 
Кукушка: в поисках лошади
Description_rus: 
Девушка (юноша, девушка с братом; двое маленьких братьев) ищет пропавшую лошадь, корову, овец и в результате (одна или вместе с братом; оба брата) превращается в птицу (обычно в кукушку) с характерным призывным криком
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: 
8

Linked traditions:
Areal IDTradition
3.5.3.2Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
5.1.3.3Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.5.3Kumyk, Terekemen
5.1.7.6Rutul, Tsakhur
5.2.1.1Georgians
5.2.2.1Armenians
5.2.2.2Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.5.1.1Kazakh

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: k35a2 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: m168b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: k73b2 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: k38f3 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: l122a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: b105 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 9 Weight: 444
Motif: b2f2 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: k14c1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: m154a1 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 10 Weight: 400
Motif: b103 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 13 Weight: 385
Motif: l90c Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: l125a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: m141a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: f70e2 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 14 Weight: 357
Motif: m39a2e Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: l40c Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: k9a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: j25a1 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: k22aa Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333