b89


Motif

Motif code: 
b89
Name_eng: 
Owl as a king of birds
Description: 

Owl was or wanted to be king of birds or it behaved itself in a wrong way during the elections of the king. Now it avoids other birds and/or other birds chase it

Name_rus: 
Филин – царь птиц
Description_rus: 
Филин (Сова) был главным среди птиц, претендовал на это или плохо себя проявил при выборе главы птиц; теперь он избегает других птиц и/или другие птицы его преследуют
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: 
27
ATU ID: 
Stith Thompson ID: 

Linked traditions:
Malagasy
Rwanda (incl Hutu, Tutsi, Kiga), Rundi, (Ma)Shi, Banyabungu; Rega
Congo (Koongo, Bacongo; incl Vili, Fioti, (Ma)Yombe, MuKunyi), Ndombo, Luango (Loango), Zombo (Sambo), Laadi (Laari), (Ba)Fioti, Woyo (Kiwoyo)
Khmer
Bhuiya (now Aryans, originally Munda; Rahman 1955: 203), Baiga, Bhaina, Bhumia (subgroup of Baiga, incl Bharia, formerly Munda, now speak Indo-Aryan languages of neighboring groups)
Chin-Naga: Ao, Mao, Sema, Zeme, Liangmai, Kolren, Kom, Lhota, Rengma, Angami, Kabui, Tangkhul, Koirenf
Garo (Atchik), Kachari (Bodo, incl. Lalung), Dimasa, Tripuri, Riang (of Tripura), Khami, Riga, Mori
Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
Germans: Northwest (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl. East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen
Poles
Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
Serbs, Monte Negro,
Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Lithuanians
Byelarusians
Russians: Central part of Russian ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500: Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, eastern part of Smolensk provinces (most of Smolensk province is Belorussian ethnic territory)
Abkhaz
Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz
Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)
Mongols (Khalkha)
Ndebele, Pedi, Thonga (incl Ronga), Hlengwe, Matabele (Tebele)
Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
Chechens
Ukrainians: Northern dialects
Early Russian written sources
Rusyns, Hutsuls

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: i87e Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: k56ac Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: m203a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: k80a5 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 8 Weight: 500
Motif: b104 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: h40a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: j51a2 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: n19 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: b6a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: k73b3 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: i42g3 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 11 Weight: 455
Motif: i82f Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 11 Weight: 455
Motif: b3c Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 11 Weight: 455
Motif: j7a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 9 Weight: 444
Motif: j69 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 9 Weight: 444
Motif: a32d2 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 14 Weight: 429
Motif: b33e Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: k64c Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: k107e Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429