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Motif

Name_eng:

The life-medicine spilled on plants

Description:

The life-medicine is accidentally spilled not on men but on plants which become evergreen, capable for regeneration or producing fruits

Name_rus:

Эликсир бессмертия пролит на растения

Description_rus:

Дарующее бессмертие и предназначенное людям средство не доставлено по назначению, а попадает на растения, которые делаются вечнозелеными, способными к регенерации или плодоносящими

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

04 Origin of death, diseases and hard life

07 Etiology of plants and animals and of their peculiar features, particular animals as protagonists of cosmological stories, metamorphoses, weather and calendar

Motif analysis result:

1. Only those Old World motifs that are not found in America besides among 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
1.3.3.3	Krache (Kraci); Ga; Adele
1.3.5.7	Kru: Kru proper, Sapo (Sapã), Grebo, Kran (Krahn, Guere-Krahn; incl. Putu, Tchien), Bete, Neyo, Wobe, Devoin (Dey), Belle (Kuwaa), Bassa, Sikon
10.2.2.2	Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang Chinese; Manchuria Chinese (data not specified on particular provinces)
10.3.2.1	Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu
10.3.2.2	Northern Ryukyu Islands (with southern Kyusyu in case of absence across the rest of Japan
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.2.2.4	Talysh
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.4.2.5	Baluch
5.4.2.8	Uzbek
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
6.4.4.1	Ot Danum, Ngaju, Maanyan (Ma'anyan)
7.2.4.2	Palau (Western Carolines)
7.2.5.7	Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), Nauru, Banaba (Ocean island)
9.1.1.1	Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
9.1.2.2	Khakas
9.1.3.1	Tuvinians of Tuva
9.1.3.3	Tofa (Karagas)
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
9.1.5.3	Mongols (Khalkha)
9.1.5.7	Mongols of Inner Mongolia
9.10.1.3	Udeghe