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Motif

Name_eng:

The feigned burial: boy exposes deceit

Description:

A man feigns death to marry his daughter or to eat burial food. One of the younger children recognizes the (adoptive) father or gets to see that the false dead is alive (escapes from the burial pyre, laughs, etc.)

Name_rus:

Мнимый покойник: мальчик раскрывает обман

Description_rus:

Человек притворяется умершим (чтобы жениться на дочери либо чтобы иметь возможность поедать одному свою добычу). Один из его младших детей опознает (приемного) отца либо замечает, что мнимый покойник жив (сбегает с погребального костра, смеется и т.п.)

Motif type:

Adventures and tricks

Motif group:

11 Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior

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:

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Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
11.1.1.2	Tundra (Lower Kolyma) Yukaghir (Waduls)
11.1.2.1	Chukchi
11.1.3.2	Maritime Koryak (Alyutor)
11.1.3.4	Kamchadal
12.4.2.4	Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
12.4.3.5	Western Swampy Cree (incl. Rock Cree)
12.4.4.1	Plains Cree
12.6.5.4	Mono (Monache)
12.6.5.6	Kawaiisu
12.6.5.8	Kitanemuk
12.7.1.1	Northern Paiute (=Paviotso)
12.7.1.10	Southern Paiute
12.7.1.11	Chemehuevi
12.7.1.7	Western Shoshone, Gosiute
12.7.1.9	Ute
12.8.3.1	Navajo
12.8.3.3	Chiricahua
12.8.3.4	Mescalero
12.8.3.6	Lipan
12.8.4.1	Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai
13.1.3.1	Crow
13.1.4.3	Santee
13.2.1.1	Pawnee
9.2.3.1	Tundra Nenets
9.2.3.3	Enets