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Motif

Name_eng:

Flint person turns into flints

Description:

Person whose body is extraordinary hard and invulnerable or (rare) a small object is broken to pieces that turn into flints or other hard stones (the origin of flints)

Name_rus:

Персонаж-кремень превращается в кремни

Description_rus:

Рассыпавшийся на мелкие куски персонаж, тело которого отличается твердостью, или (редко) небольшой предмет превращается в кремни или другие твердые камни (происхождение кремней)

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
12.3.2.1	Shuswap
12.3.2.2	Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)
12.3.7.2	Tillamook
12.3.7.5	Kalapuya
12.3.7.9	Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet
12.3.8.1	Kutenai
12.4.3.3	Naskapi
12.6.1.1	Yurok
12.6.3.1	Pomo
12.6.4.1	Sierra Miwok
12.6.4.3	Coastal Miwok
12.7.1.5	Eastern Shoshone
12.7.1.6	Northern Shoshone
12.7.1.9	Ute
12.8.3.1	Navajo
12.8.3.2	Jicarilla
13.1.1.2	Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina)
13.1.3.1	Crow
13.1.3.4	Arikara
13.2.1.1	Pawnee
13.2.2.1	Kiowa Apache
16.2.1.3	Northern and Southern Tehuelche
4.2.1.1	Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia)
4.2.1.3	Danes