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Motif

Name_eng:

Pets turn into children

Description:

A lonely woman or married couple surprises childred who live nearby in guise of animals (plants, objects). After this the children preserve their human guise

Name_rus:

Детеныши оборачиваются детьми

Description_rus:

Персонажи, снявшие свои обличья животных (растений, предметов), становятся детьми женщины или супругов, которые застают их врасплох

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

05 Origin of human beings, ethnic groups, etiology of human anatomy, strange body configuration, ways of behavior, marriages before the establishment of the present norms

Motif analysis result:

1. Only those Old World motifs that are not found in America besides among the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans.

2. Only those motifs that are found in America (including the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans)

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.2.5.10	Safwa, Nyika (Nyixa, Nyiha), Mkulwe, Ngonde, Kinga, Nyakusa, Nyamwanga
1.2.5.8	Chagga (Jagga; incl Wasu), Pare, Digo
1.3.1.2	Tiv, Bamum (Bamun), Mungaka (Mgaka, Bali), Beba, Anaguta, Bete (Mbete, Karang), Ekoi, Nyang, Vute (Wute), Jukun, Chamba, Bamileke, Kwotto, Kirri; Denya (Nyang)
1.3.2.2	Biu-Mandara: Margi, Kilba, Bura, Kera, Karekare (Kerri-Kerri), Bachama, Zulgo, Giziga, Hdi, Kapsiki, Mandara (incl Mukulehe, Matakam), Mofu (Mofu-Gudur), Somrai (Sibine, Shibha)
11.2.1.1	Asiatic Eskimo (Sirenek, Naukan, Chaplino)
11.2.2.1	Bering Strait Inupiat (incl. King Island)
11.2.2.2	North Alaskan Inupiat
12.1.2.10	Dogrib, Slavey
12.1.2.2	Tagish
12.1.2.4	Tahltan
12.1.2.5	Tsetsaut
12.1.2.6	Kaska
12.2.1.2	Tlingit
12.2.1.3	Haida
12.2.1.4	Tsimshian
12.2.2.1	Heiltsuk (Bellabella), Oowekeeno
12.2.2.2	Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)
12.2.2.3	Bella Coola (Nuxalk)
12.2.2.4	Nootka (Nu-chah-nulth), Makah
12.3.1.1	Carrier
12.3.1.2	Chilkotin
12.3.2.1	Shuswap
12.3.2.2	Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)
12.3.2.3	Lillooet
12.3.4.1	Comox, Pentlatch
12.3.4.2	Sechelt (incl Sisiatl), Squamish, Halcomelem
12.3.4.5	Twana (Skokomish)
12.3.5.1	Quinault
12.3.5.2	Quileute, Chemakum (Hoh)
12.3.7.2	Tillamook
12.3.7.9	Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet