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Motif

Name_eng:

The dog-heads

Description:

Some beings are half-men and half-dogs (usually anthropomorphic with heads of dogs)

Name_rus:

Псоглавцы

Description_rus:

Есть существа, сочетающие признаки собаки и человека (обычно люди с собачьими мордами или головами)

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:

1. Only those Old World motifs that are not found in America besides among the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans.

2. Only those motifs that are found in America (including the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans)

4. All motifs of category 1 (cosmology) in sub-Saharan Africa and those motifs of category 2 (adventures) which are found in sub-Saharan Africa and widespread in the Indo-Pacific world with scarce or no cases in Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

ATU ID:

Stith Thompson ID:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.2.6.3	Fang (Pangwe), Eton, Bafia, Batanga, Benga, Bube (Bubi), Buheba, Yaunde (Ewondo), Yebekolo, Koko, Bulu, Beti (Beti-Bulu), Sekiani, Eghap
1.4.2.2	Shilluk, Anuak
10.2.1.1	Early Chinese written sources
10.2.2.1	Chinese folklore: Anhui, Jiangxi and data without precise provinience (incl Hakka, Min Dong)
10.2.4.1	Koreans; Goguryeo
11.1.2.1	Chukchi
11.2.3.1	Mackenzie Delta
11.2.3.10	East Greenland (Angmassalik, Kulusuk)
11.2.3.8	Polar Inuit
11.2.3.9	West Greenland
12.1.1.6	Gwich'in (Kutchin, Loucheux)
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs
3.2.1.2	Saho, Afar
3.3.4.3	Scotland
3.3.5.3	Germans: Northwest (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl. East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
3.5.1.5	Byzantine literature
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.2.3	Bosnia Muslims
3.5.2.4	Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
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
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.1.3.7	Russian Pomors ("seasiders"): Lower Pechora
4.1.4.1	Early Russian written sources
4.2.1.4	Swedes
4.2.2.2	Eastern Sami (including Inari, Skolts)
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.2.4.4	Livonians
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
5.1.7.3	Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi
5.3.3.1	Yemen
5.4.1.1	Iranian literary tradition (including Avesta, Pahlevi scripts, Šah-nāmeh, Marzbān-nāmeh); Zoroastrians of Iran, Indian Parsees
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
5.5.2.1	Uyghur
6.2.4.1	Kachin (Jingpho), Chak, Maru
6.4.3.7	Mentawai
9.1.1.1	Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
9.1.2.2	Khakas
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
9.1.5.2	Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)
9.1.5.3	Mongols (Khalkha)
9.1.5.6	Monguor (Tu), Shirongol
9.2.1.1	Mansi
9.2.2.3	Southern Selkups
9.2.3.1	Tundra Nenets