h18b

Motif

Name_eng:

Cattle returns into water

Description:

After getting domestic animals from supernaturals a person immediately loses the animals or most of them (usually because of a broken taboo like to look, to speak in a loud voice, etc.; the animals disappear in water, remain in the sky, scatter in various directions, etc.)

Name_rus:

Скот возвращается в воду

Description_rus:

Получив от сверхъестественных персонажей домашний скот, человек (обычно из-за нарушения запрета смотреть, кричать и т.п.) тут же теряет всех или большинство животных (они уходят в воду, на небо, разбегаются и т.п.)

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

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
1.3.5.1	Fula (=Fulbe, Fulani, Pular)
1.4.3.5	Masai
10.2.3.3	Namuzi (Namuyi), Mosuo, Naxi; Pumi (Primi)
3.3.4.2	Wales
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.2.2.1	Western Sami
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
6.2.1.4	Lavrung, Jiarong; Qiang (incl rGyalrong)
6.2.2.1	Lepcha
6.2.3.1	Eastern Arunachal Pradesh: Abor (incl Minyong, Shimong, Padam, Pasi, Panggi), Apa Tani (Apatani), Bori, Bugun, Dafla (=Nyishi, Nisi, Nishing, incl Tagin), Gallong (=Galo, Adi), Mishmi
6.2.3.3	Chin-Naga: Ao, Mao, Sema, Zeme, Liangmai, Kolren, Kom, Lhota, Rengma, Angami, Kabui, Tangkhul, Koirenf
6.2.3.5	Garo (Atchik), Kachari (Bodo, incl. Lalung), Dimasa, Tripuri, Riang (of Tripura), Khami, Riga, Mori
6.2.4.2	Rawang, Dulong; Anong, Drung
9.2.1.3	Northern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.3.1.5	Northeastern Yakuts (Sakha): Yana, Indigirka and Kolyma Basins