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Motif

Name_eng:

Fungi and excrescences (ogress transformed)

Description:

When a demonic person (usually an ogress pursuing a man) dies, her or his flesh turns into objects that are found on trees, like fungi, pitch, fruits or nuts

Name_rus:

Грибы и наросты (преображение людоедки)

Description_rus:

После того, как демонический персонаж (обычно людоедка, преследующая героя) гибнет, его плоть превращается в объекты, встречающиеся на деревьях – грибы, смолу, плоды, шишки

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

08 Queer and monstrous beings, creatures, objects and loci, folk beliefs related to particular phenomena and objects

Motif analysis result:

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
12.1.1.3	Koyukon
12.3.2.3	Lillooet
12.3.7.2	Tillamook
12.4.4.1	Plains Cree
12.5.2.1	Huron (incl Wyandot)
12.8.3.1	Navajo
13.3.2.1	Tunica
13.3.3.2	Alabama, Koasati
9.10.1.1	Nanai
9.2.2.1	Kets
9.2.2.2	Yughs
9.2.2.4	Northern Selkups