h48

Motif

Name_eng:

Daughters of evil spirit

Description:

Diseases are sisters (rare: brothers), usually children of evil spirit

Name_rus:

Сестры-лихорадки

Description_rus:

Болезни – женщины-сестры (реже мужчины-братья), обычно дети злого духа

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

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

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:

ATU ID:

Stith Thompson ID:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
15.2.2.1	Warao
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.1.3.1	Russians: Central part of Russian ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500: Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, eastern part of Smolensk provinces (most of Smolensk province is Belorussian ethnic territory)
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
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)
4.1.3.8	Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.2.1.6	Faroe Islands
4.2.2.2	Eastern Sami (including Inari, Skolts)
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.1.8.1	Terek Cossacks
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.6.2.10	Sindhi
6.1.1.3	Northern Munda of Kharwar branch: Birhor, Ho, Mundari, Kol, Asur (including Agaria, Kol, Birjhia), Bhumij
9.1.1.1	Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
9.1.2.2	Khakas
9.2.3.1	Tundra Nenets
9.2.3.4	Nganasans
9.3.1.3	Western Yakuts (Sakha): Olekma and Vilyuy Basins
9.3.2.3	Baikal RegionTungus/Evenki
9.3.4.1	Evens (Lamuts)