i38


Motif

Motif code: 
i38
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: 
57
ATU ID: 
Stith Thompson ID: 

Linked traditions:
Yemen
Algeria Arabs
Saho, Afar
Shilluk, Anuak
Fang (Pangwe), Eton, Bafia, Batanga, Benga, Bube (Bubi), Buheba, Yaunde (Ewondo), Yebekolo, Koko, Bulu, Beti (Beti-Bulu), Sekiani, Eghap
Mentawai
Kachin (Jingpho), Chak, Maru
Early Chinese written sources
Chinese folklore: Anhui, Jiangxi and data without precise provinience (incl Hakka, Min Dong)
Koreans; Goguryeo
Scotland
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
Hungarians
Greeks (modern)
Bulgarians
Macedonians
Serbs, Monte Negro,
Bosnia Muslims
Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
Slovenians
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Lithuanians
Latvians
Livonians
Estonians
Setu
Finns
Eastern Sami (including Inari, Skolts)
Swedes
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
Iranian literary tradition (including Avesta, Pahlevi scripts, Šah-nāmeh, Marzbān-nāmeh); Zoroastrians of Iran, Indian Parsees
Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi
Kazakh
Kirghiz
Uyghur
Mari (Cheremis)
Mansi
Tundra Nenets
Buryats: Western (cis Baikal)
Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)
Mongols (Khalkha)
Monguor (Tu), Shirongol
Khakas
Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
Southern Selkups
Chukchi
Gwich'in (Kutchin, Loucheux)
Mackenzie Delta
Polar Inuit
West Greenland
East Greenland (Angmassalik, Kulusuk)
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Ukrainians: Northern dialects
Early Russian written sources
Russian Pomors ("seasiders"): Lower Pechora
Rusyns, Hutsuls
Byzantine literature

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: i38a Shared traditions: 15 All traditions: 17 Weight: 882
Motif: k73a9 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
Motif: n37 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: b47a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: b93a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif: b87b Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 10 Weight: 800
Motif: i87e Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif: k145b Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 12 Weight: 750
Motif: m38d4 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: c31a Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 8 Weight: 750
Motif: b49b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: d1a4 Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 11 Weight: 727
Motif: d4h Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: m170a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: b124 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: b33e1 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 10 Weight: 700
Motif: h7g2 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: m74c Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: k73b3 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667