l15h


Motif

Motif code: 
l15h
Name_eng: 
The external soul: three or more objects one inside the other
Description: 

An object that contains the life (soul) of a person is inside two or more creatures or other objects (like an egg in a duck, a duck in a hare, etc.) or the zoomorphic soul container tries to escape and turns in succession to other animals (three or more transformations)

Name_rus: 
Внешняя душа: последовательные вложения
Description_rus: 
Объект, в котором сосредоточена жизнь персонажа, заключен в другом, тот в третьем и т.д. (типа яйцо в утке, утка в зайце, заяц в сундуке и т.п.). Либо животное, в котором заключена душа персонажа, превращается, убегая, в других животных. Говорится о трех или более вложениях или превращениях
Motif type: 
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group: 
08 Queer and monstrous beings, creatures, objects and loci, folk beliefs related to particular phenomena and objects
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: 
87

Linked traditions:
Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
Tunisia Arabs
Mandingo (Manden, incl San, Samo), Kagoro, Bambara (Bamana), Malinke, Kassonke, Diula
Songhai
Songhai
Tuareg
Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
Kafir, or Nuristani: Prasun; Kati (incl. Paruni), Ashkun (Ashunu), Waigali
Ireland
Scotland
Spain
Portuguese
Basques
Catalan
Maltese
Italians: Northern (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Southern Tirol, Emilia–Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino–Alto Adige)
Sicily
Sardinia, Corsica
Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
Bretagne
Dutch, Flemish
Poles
Slovakians
Hungarians
Bulgarians
Macedonians
Serbs, Monte Negro,
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Albanians
Lithuanians
Latvians
Estonians
Karelians
Western Sami
Norwegians
Swedes
Danes
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)
Uzbek
Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi
Yagnobi
Tajik
Persians
Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
Abkhaz
Ossetians
Ingush
Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz
Georgians
Armenians
Kalmyk
Crimea Tatars, Karaims
Gagauz
Anatolia Turks
Kazakh
Uyghur
Dungan of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan
Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
Bashkirs
Mordvins
Chuvash
Udmurt
Buryats: Western (cis Baikal)
Tuvinians of Tuva
Tuvinians of Southern Altai
Siberian Tatars
Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
Northern Altai: Chelkan, Kumanda, Tubalar
Southern Selkups
Dolgans
Evens (Lamuts)
Nivkh
Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
Chulym Turks
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Russians: Southern part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Belgorod, Voronezh, Tambov, Penza, Lipetsk, Orel, Kursk, Bryansk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Samara, Simbirsk and Saratov provinces)
Upper Brittany
Transylvanian Saksons
Rusyns, Hutsuls
Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
Occitanie (southern France): Limousin, Auvergne, Provence, Aquitaine, Albret, Gers, Aveyron (Rouerge), Armagnac, Landes, Gascogne, Vivarés, Roussillon, Pyrénées, Bearne, Guyenne, Bigorre, Ain, Hautes Alpes, Ariège, Vienne, Aude, French part of Swiss
Eastern Prussia

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: k107e Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 7 Weight: 1000
Motif: m152f Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: m60a3 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif: b106 Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 9 Weight: 1000
Motif: b104 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 6 Weight: 1000
Motif: l15h3 Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 9 Weight: 1000
Motif: h55a Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 6 Weight: 1000
Motif: m109d Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 2 Weight: 1000
Motif: m11b Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif: l15h2 Shared traditions: 22 All traditions: 22 Weight: 1000
Motif: k181a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: a8a Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 9 Weight: 1000
Motif: n19 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif: k73a9 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 7 Weight: 1000
Motif: m39a2e Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: j25a1 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: k67g Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 5 Weight: 1000
Motif: k113b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: i22g1 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000