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Motif

Name_eng:

Shooter’s thumb cut off

Description:

A small animal (marmot, rabbit, mole, toad, frog) or person who turns into this animal tried to hit with his arrow an aim in the sky (the Sun or a bird) but remains without thumb as a result

Name_rus:

Отрубленный палец стрелка

Description_rus:

Небольшое животное (сурок, кролик, крот, лягушка) или человек, превращающийся в результате в такое животное, старается поразить стрелами цель в небе (светило или же птицу) и в результате лишается больших пальцев

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

01 Sun and Moon

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.

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
6.2.2.1	Lepcha
9.1.1.1	Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
9.1.3.1	Tuvinians of Tuva
9.1.4.2	Buryats: Eastern (Trans-Baikal, Mongolia and Inner Mongolia)
9.1.5.2	Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)
9.1.5.3	Mongols (Khalkha)
9.1.5.6	Monguor (Tu), Shirongol
9.1.5.7	Mongols of Inner Mongolia