a37b


Motif

Motif code: 
a37b
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: 
9

Linked traditions:
Lepcha
Kazakh
Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)
Mongols (Khalkha)
Monguor (Tu), Shirongol
Tuvinians of Tuva
Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
Mongols of Inner Mongolia
Buryats: Eastern (trans Baikal), i.e. Khori

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: b47a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: k38b1 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: l90d Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: a37c Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: k37e Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: m78e Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: m11b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: a37a Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 12 Weight: 500
Motif: m99a1 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 8 Weight: 500
Motif: k27n3a1 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: c31c Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 11 Weight: 455
Motif: b45b Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 11 Weight: 455
Motif: k109 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: m109a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: m133 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: d4aa Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 12 Weight: 417
Motif: i20b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: a23d Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 15 Weight: 400
Motif: b42h2 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400