h26

Motif

Name_eng:

Mosquitoes had to be drowned

Description:

The right way to dispose of container with stinging insects would be to throw it into the river or sea or bury in a far away place, but it was not done

Name_rus:

Комаров надо было топить

Description_rus:

Сосуд с жалящими насекомыми или пресмыкающимися следовало бросить в реку, в море, зарыть в отдаленном месте

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Adventures and tricks

Motif group:

08 Queer and monstrous beings, creatures, objects and loci, folk beliefs related to particular phenomena and objects

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)

3. Only those motifs that are found in Central and South America

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

ATU ID:

Stith Thompson ID:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
14.1.2.3	Nahuan groups of Puebla and Huasteca after AD1900
14.1.3.1	Tepehua, Totonac
14.1.3.2	Gulf Nahuatl
14.1.3.3	Sayula Popoluca (=Veracruz Mixe), Sierra Popoluca, Veracruz Zoque
14.1.4.4	Oaxaca Mixe
14.1.4.7	Chontal
14.1.4.8	Zoque; Izapa iconography (I millennium BC)
14.1.5.1	Tzotzil
14.1.5.3	Chol; pre-Columbian Mayan iconography
14.1.6.2	Lacandon
14.1.6.3	Kekchi; Mopan
14.2.1.3	Paya (Pech), Sumu, Misquito
14.4.1.2	Colorado (Tsachila)
14.4.1.3	XVI century Cañari; Kechua-speaking groups of Azuay, Cañar, Cayambe, Otovalo, Imbabura provinces
14.4.2.2	Northern Peru: Sierra (Kechua-speaking communities, Cajamarca, Ancash, Huanuco and San Martin departments; Chavin pre-Columbian iconography; Spanish sources of XVI-XVII centuries)
15.1.1.1	Yaruro
15.3.2.1	Cofan (Cofán)
15.3.2.2	Napo (Quijo), Kanelo (“Jungle Kechua”)
15.5.4.1	Bolivian Guarani: Chiriguano (including assimilated Chane Arawaks), Pauserna (=Guarasu), Guarayu, Tapiete
15.6.2.1	Kamayura
15.6.3.2	Kayabi
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.3	Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.1.3.6	Russians: Southern part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Belgorod, Voronezh, Tambov, Penza, Lipetsk, Orel, Kursk, Bryansk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Samara, Simbirsk and Saratov provinces)
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.4.4	Livonians
4.2.4.5	Lutsi (Ludza)
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians