i45a


Motif

Motif code: 
i45a
Name_eng: 
Not to point at the Moon or a star
Description: 

Person who points at the Moon or a star or looks intently at them will get sick or die or his pointing finger will rot or wither

Name_rus: 
Не смотреть на луну, звезду
Description_rus: 
Указывающий пальцем или пристально смотрящий на луну или звезду заболеет (умрет) либо палец, которым указывали, сгниет или отсохнет
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
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: 
50
ATU ID: 
Stith Thompson ID: 

Linked traditions:
Duala (Douala), Basa (Basaá), Kwiri (Kweli), Isubu
Easter Island
Sora (Savara, Saora), Parenga
England
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
Poles
Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
Czech
Hungarians
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Lithuanians
Livonians
Estonians
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)
Lezgians, Archin, Kürin; Khinalug
Nogai
Armenians
Kalmyk
Mari (Cheremis)
Mordvins
Chuvash
Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
Mansi
Khakas
Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
Northern Selkups
Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu
Chukchi
Upper Tanana (Nebesna)
Inland Tlingit
Ingalik (Der Hit’an)
Haida
Tsimshian
Teton (incl Oglala)
Kawaiisu
Bannock
Northern Shoshone
Western Shoshone, Gosiute
Navajo
Jicarilla
Mescalero
Sayula Popoluca (=Veracruz Mixe), Sierra Popoluca, Veracruz Zoque
Japan AD 700-1700
Northeastern Yakuts (Sakha): Yana, Indigirka and Kolyma Basins
Sichuan Chinese
Chinese of Qinghai and Gansu provinces and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
Terek Cossacks
Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: j51a2 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: b110a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif: n31 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: i7b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: n28f Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: f100a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: k73b7 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: l108g Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: m152f Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: k181a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: b108 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: k113b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: h54c Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: b35a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 8 Weight: 625
Motif: b125a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: i132a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: l94e``` Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 10 Weight: 600
Motif: b122 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 9 Weight: 556
Motif: k67h Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 11 Weight: 545