m62f


Motif

Motif code: 
m62f
Name_eng: 
Every next assistant kills previous one
Description: 

Person invites others to help him in his work. Every next one is stronger than the one who came before and eats him up, the last two perish when they begin to fight

Name_rus: 
Один помощник съедает другог8о
Description_rus: 
Персонаж просит других помочь ему в работe. Позванные приходят, каждый следующий сильнее предыдущего и съедает его, двое последних гибнут, вступив друг с другом в борьбу
Motif type: 
Adventures and tricks
Motif group: 
11 Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior
Motif analysis result: 
1. Only those Old World motifs that are not found in America besides among the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans.
4. All motifs of category 1 (cosmology) in sub-Saharan Africa and those motifs of category 2 (adventures) which are found in sub-Saharan Africa and widespread in the Indo-Pacific world with scarce or no cases in Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia
Motif analysis result tradition count all: 
9

Linked traditions:
Ngbakka, Mbum (incl Mbai), Mundang, Fali, Tupuri, Maya (=Bali), Nyong
Tiv, Bamum (Bamun), Mungaka (Mgaka, Bali), Beba, Anaguta, Bete (Mbete, Karang), Ekoi, Nyang, Vute (Wute), Jukun, Chamba, Bamileke, Kwotto, Kirri; Denya (Nyang)
Hausa
Biu-Mandara: Margi, Kilba, Bura, Kera, Karekare (Kerri-Kerri), Bachama, Zulgo, Giziga, Hdi, Kapsiki, Mandara (incl Mukulehe, Matakam), Mofu (Mofu-Gudur), Somrai (Sibine, Shibha)
Zaghawa
Kanuri
Ijaw (incl. Kalabari)
Ewe
Krache (Kraci); Ga; Adele

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: m132 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: m29nn Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: k105 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: e1b1 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 9 Weight: 333
Motif: h34d1 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 15 Weight: 267
Motif: m181b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 8 Weight: 250
Motif: j58a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 8 Weight: 250
Motif: l115 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 19 Weight: 211
Motif: m62e Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200
Motif: l118a1 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200
Motif: k61b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 15 Weight: 200
Motif: f73a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200
Motif: m109c Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200
Motif: h36i Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 15 Weight: 200
Motif: l108b2 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 5 Weight: 200
Motif: l117 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 11 Weight: 182
Motif: d4b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 6 Weight: 167
Motif: f28a1 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 6 Weight: 167
Motif: m56b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 12 Weight: 167