c22


Motif

Name_eng: 
Toad in search of thunder
Description: 

In time of severe drought or the world conflagration birds and animals are sent to bring rain from Thunders who live at the end of the world. Some fail, the last one succeeds. Toad takes important part in the action

Name_rus: 
Жаба в поисках грома
Description_rus: 
Во время жестокой засухи или мирового пожара птицы и животные посланы к живущим на краю мира громам принести дождь. Последний из посланных достигает цели. Важную роль в действии играет жаба
Motif type: 
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group: 
03 Cosmogony, the earth and the sky, etiology of the elements, natural and biological phenomena (fire, water, soil, thunderstorms, dream, etc.), cataclysms and cosmic threats, spirits of nature
07 Etiology of plants and animals and of their peculiar features, particular animals as protagonists of cosmological stories, metamorphoses, weather and calendar
09 Identification of protagonists of the stories with particular animals or persons with particular qualities
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: 
3
ATU ID: 
Stith Thompson ID: 

Linked traditions:
Areal IDTradition
14.1.1.3Mayo, Yaqui, Sinaloa
14.1.1.5Cora
14.2.2.3Guaymi, Bocota, Dorasque; XVI century data on Western Panama

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: c12a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 6 Weight: 167
Motif: b75d Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 6 Weight: 167
Motif: a22a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 14 Weight: 143
Motif: b2b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 22 Weight: 136
Motif: d4d Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 10 Weight: 100
Motif: g9b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 12 Weight: 83
Motif: k10a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 14 Weight: 71
Motif: a22 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 30 Weight: 67
Motif: e33 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 15 Weight: 67
Motif: a22c Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 17 Weight: 59
Motif: d7 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 42 Weight: 48
Motif: b62 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 21 Weight: 48
Motif: k11a1 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 22 Weight: 45
Motif: e9d Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 47 Weight: 43
Motif: a34 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 23 Weight: 43
Motif: k11a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 25 Weight: 40
Motif: h35 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 26 Weight: 38
Motif: c12b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 27 Weight: 37
Motif: a32c1 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 28 Weight: 36