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Motif

Name_eng:

False Pygmalion

Description:

Man makes a wooden doll and pretends that it is alive. Really it is not or it is half-alive. A real woman takes place of a doll, marries the master

Name_rus:

Мнимый Пигмалион

Description_rus:

Мужчина делает деревянную куклу и ведет себя так, будто она живая. Она не оживает или оживает лишь частично или временно. Настоящая женщина подменяет собой фигуру и вступает в брак с резчиком

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:

2. Only those motifs that are found in America (including 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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
12.2.1.2	Tlingit
12.2.1.4	Tsimshian
12.2.2.2	Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)
12.2.2.3	Bella Coola (Nuxalk)
12.3.4.2	Sechelt (incl Sisiatl), Squamish, Halcomelem
3.4.1.1	Ancient Greece
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
5.4.2.1	Persians
6.1.2.5	Maria, Muria, and other South-Central Dravidians: Binjhwar, Baсор, Bhattra, Bom, Jhoria (=Jhodia), Gadaba (in Koraput, neighbors of Munda-speaking Gadaba), Duruwa (Parji), Mehtar; Pardhan
7.2.4.3	Yap
9.1.5.4	Daur (Daghur)
9.2.1.1	Mansi