a31a


Motif

Name_eng: 
The cut off breast
Description: 

When a woman gets know that her husband or lover did something against accepted rules of behavior, she cuts off her breast and shows it to him

Name_rus: 
Отрезанная грудь
Description_rus: 
Узнав, что ее муж или любовник совершил нечто несовместимое с принятыми нормами, женщина отрезает себе грудь и показывает ему ее
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)
Motif analysis result tradition count all: 
9
ATU ID: 
Stith Thompson ID: 

Linked traditions:
Areal IDTradition
11.1.2.1Chukchi
11.1.3.2Maritime Koryak (Alyutor)
11.2.1.4Central Yupik
11.2.2.2North Alaskan Inupiat
11.2.3.10East Greenland (Angmassalik, Kulusuk)
11.2.3.5Iglulik
11.2.3.7Labrador Inuit (Koksoagmiut)
11.2.3.9West Greenland
12.1.1.1Ingalik (Der Hit’an)

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: f51c Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 8 Weight: 750
Motif: i50b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: i123 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: i60a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: f91 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 10 Weight: 500
Motif: k27n3a1 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: l59a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 8 Weight: 500
Motif: k25a3 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: m17a Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 12 Weight: 500
Motif: k45b Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 11 Weight: 455
Motif: k45 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 12 Weight: 417
Motif: f67 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 10 Weight: 400
Motif: m92 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: k32k Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: l102a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: k27n3c1 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: k10h Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: b38c Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 17 Weight: 353
Motif: m123b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333