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Motif

Name_eng:

The cuckoo: in search of lost family member

Description:

Two teenagers or young people are in search of each other, call each other (or one of them call another): a girl in search of her lost (or dead) brother or brother’s wife, a boy in search of his brother or sister, young parents in seach their child. One or both of them turn into birds with specific cry

Name_rus:

Кукушка: в поисках члена семьи

Description_rus:

Двое подростков или молодых людей ищут друг друга, перекликаются (или один из них зовет другого): девушка – пропавшего (умершего) брата или жену брата; брат – сестру или брата; молодые родители – своего ребенка; один из них или оба превращаются в птиц 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:

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

3. Only those motifs that are found in Central and South America

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
10.2.2.10	Guangdong, Guanxi and Yunnan Chinese
10.2.2.11	Shandong Chinese
10.2.2.2	Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang Chinese; Manchuria Chinese (data not specified on particular provinces)
10.2.2.4	Fujian (Fukian) Chinese
10.2.2.5	Jiangsu and Zhejang Chinese
10.2.2.9	Shanxi and Hebei Chinese
10.2.3.2	Lisu, Achang, Taunyo
15.3.1.1	Siona, Secoya, Coreguaje
15.3.2.2	Napo (Quijo), Kanelo (“Jungle Kechua”)
15.3.2.5	Zaparo
15.3.6.1	Witoto, Ocaina
15.3.7.1	Ticuna (Tucuna)
16.1.4.4	Mocovi; Kechua of Santiago del Estero with probable Guaikuruan substratum; Abipon
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.2.1	Albanians
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.5.3	Kumyk, Terekemen
5.1.7.6	Rutul, Tsakhur
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.2.2.6	Zaza (western Kurds)
5.6.2.19	Kumaoni (Central Pahari), incl. Garhwali
6.2.2.1	Lepcha
6.2.2.2	Kirati (Kiranti): Rai (incl Thulung), Limbu, Newar
6.4.5.3	Bali, Lombok
9.1.1.1	Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
9.1.2.1	Shor
9.1.2.2	Khakas