h54


Motif

Motif code: 
h54
Name_eng: 
The eyelids of Viy
Description: 

Eyelids (eyelashes, eyebrows) of personage hang long down over his eyes. To make the eyes widely opened, the eyelids (eyelashes, eyebrows) should be propped up with poles, folks, sticks, etc. (rare: cut off)

Name_rus: 
Веки Вия
Description_rus: 
Веки (ресницы, брови) персонажа свешиваются вниз, закрывая глаза. Чтобы глаза были широко открыты, его веки (ресницы, брови) надо поднять, подпереть, распялить (редко: отрезать)
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)
3. Only those motifs that are found in Central and South America
Motif analysis result tradition count all: 
60
Stith Thompson ID: 
F571.1

Linked traditions:
Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
Algeria Arabs
Hawaii
Hawaii
Ifaluk, Woleai, Lamutrek, Faraulip Satawal, Elato, Western Fayu
Ireland
Wales
England
Spain
Basques
French (northern France)
Hungarians
Greeks (modern)
Bulgarians
Serbs, Monte Negro,
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Latvians
Livonians
Finns
Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia)
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
Byelarusians
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)
Khwarezm Uzbek; Turkic written tradition from Kök Orda
Iranian literary tradition (including Avesta, Pahlevi scripts, Šah-nāmeh, Marzbān-nāmeh); Zoroastrians of Iran, Indian Parsees
Abkhaz
Karachays, Balkar
Nogai
Mordvins
Chuvash
Buryats: Western (cis Baikal)
Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)
Daur (Daghur)
Tuvinians of Tuva
Khakas
Northern Selkups
Kets
Central Yakuts (Sakha)
Upper Tanana (Nebesna)
Netsilik
Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)
Carrier
Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)
Hopi
Warao
Baniwa (incl. Wakuenai), Bare, Piapoco, Curripaco, Siusi, Guarikena
Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
NE Tibetans (Amdo)
Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
Western Yakuts (Sakha): Olekma and Vilyuy Basins
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Ukrainians: Northern dialects
Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
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)
Buryats: Eastern (trans Baikal), i.e. Khori
Lutsi (Ludza)
Upper Brittany
Terek Cossacks

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: h54c Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: k181a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: k64c Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 7 Weight: 1000
Motif: h54a Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 8 Weight: 875
Motif: k119c Shared traditions: 12 All traditions: 14 Weight: 857
Motif: b87b Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 10 Weight: 800
Motif: i47a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: i7b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: b68a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: h40a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: n19 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: n28h Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: k67h Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 11 Weight: 727
Motif: m57d4 Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 11 Weight: 727
Motif: k73a9 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: h7f Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: b123 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: b33d1 Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 13 Weight: 692
Motif: h24d Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 13 Weight: 692