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Motif

Name_eng:

Ungulate animal with more than four legs

Description:

An ungulate animal (a horse, an elk, a moose) with six or more legs is described or represented in art

Name_rus:

Многоногий зверь (копытное животное)

Description_rus:

Описывается или изображается копытное животное (конь, лось, олень) о шести и более ногах

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)

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

Stith Thompson ID:

B15.6.3.

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
10.2.1.1	Early Chinese written sources
11.1.1.1	Forest (Upper Kolyma) Yukaghir (Oduls)
11.1.1.2	Tundra (Lower Kolyma) Yukaghir (Waduls)
11.1.4.2	Chuvans, Russian-speaking Creols of Markovo
11.2.1.1	Asiatic Eskimo (Sirenek, Naukan, Chaplino)
3.3.4.1	Ireland
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
3.5.3.3	Transylvanian Saksons
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.2.1.1	Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia)
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
5.1.5.2	Nogai
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.6.1.1	Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
5.6.2.8	Kashmiri
6.2.1.2	NE Tibetans (Amdo)
9.1.1.1	Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
9.1.1.3	Northern Altai: Chelkan, Kumanda, Tubalar
9.1.2.1	Shor
9.1.2.2	Khakas
9.1.3.2	Tuvinians of Southern Altai
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
9.1.4.2	Buryats: Eastern (Trans-Baikal, Mongolia and Inner Mongolia)
9.1.5.1	Darkhad
9.1.5.2	Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)
9.1.5.3	Mongols (Khalkha)
9.1.5.4	Daur (Daghur)
9.1.5.7	Mongols of Inner Mongolia
9.10.1.4	Oroch
9.10.3.1	Manchu
9.2.1.1	Mansi
9.2.1.2	Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.2.1.3	Northern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.2.1.4	Southern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.2.2.1	Kets
9.2.3.1	Tundra Nenets
9.2.3.2	Forest Nenets
9.3.1.1	Central Yakuts (Sakha)
9.3.1.5	Northeastern Yakuts (Sakha): Yana, Indigirka and Kolyma Basins
9.3.2.2	Sym Tungus/Evenki
9.3.2.5	Yerbogachen Tungus/Evenki
9.3.4.1	Evens (Lamuts)