j40


Motif

Name_eng: 
Enemy from the sky
Description: 

Beings who live in the sky descend to kill people. Usually such a being carries away to its world a person or many people (or person's cut off head or limb). The hero (usually a relation of the perished one) revenges on the dangerous being and/or brings back the victim or victims (his or her head, etc.)

Name_rus: 
Враг с неба
Description_rus: 
На небе обитают существа, спускающиеся убивать людей. Обычно существо уносит человека или многих людей либо голову человека. Герой (обычно близкий родственник погибшего или погибших) мстит убийце и/или возвращает похищенного (похищенных; унесенную часть тела)
Motif type: 
Adventures and tricks
Motif group: 
10 Adventures
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: 
23

Linked traditions:
Areal IDTradition
12.1.1.3Koyukon
12.1.1.9Upper Tanana (Nebesna)
12.3.4.3Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam
12.4.2.1Menominee
12.4.2.3Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree, Northern Saulteaux)
12.4.2.8Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo
12.4.3.2Montagnais
12.4.3.5Western Swampy Cree (incl. Rock Cree)
12.8.4.4Yuma proper (Quechan), Mohave, Maricopa
13.1.1.1Blackfoot
13.1.2.1Assiniboine
13.1.3.4Arikara
13.3.2.4Biloxi
14.1.3.1Tepehua, Totonac
14.1.5.1Tzotzil
14.1.5.4Chorti
15.3.1.2Mai Huna (Coto, Orejon)
15.3.4.2Barasana, Taibano, Macuna
5.1.1.1Kalmyk
5.1.4.2Ossetians
6.2.3.4Northern Naga: Konyak (incl. Tangsa), Lungshang, Wancho, Nokte, Moclum, Lunshan, Chang, Maring, Naga of Myanmar
9.10.1.5Uilta (Orok)
9.3.3.1Tungus.Evenki) of Russian Far East

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: j41a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: j41b Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 10 Weight: 700
Motif: k1j Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: b125c Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: m61a3 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: b42o1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: l91 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: k18c Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 11 Weight: 364
Motif: m75a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 11 Weight: 364
Motif: m93a Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 23 Weight: 348
Motif: m32a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 9 Weight: 333
Motif: i28a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: i15a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: k38b2 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: i27d Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: b48d Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: f100b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: h37b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: i37e Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333