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Motif
Name_eng:
Mouse gnaws snare open
Description:
After the Sun is caught into snare only mouse, shrew or other small animal is able to cut it open
Name_rus:
Мышь перегрызает силок
Description_rus:
Солнце попадает в капкан, силок. Лишь мышке или другому небольшому животному удается перегрызть силок и освободить солнце
Motif type:
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group:
01 Sun and Moon
03 Cosmogony, the earth and the sky, etiology of the elements, natural and biological phenomena (fire, water, soil, thunderstorms, dream, etc.), cataclysms and cosmic threats, spirits of nature
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:
2. Only those motifs that are found in America (including the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans)
Motif analysis result tradition count all:
23
ATU ID:
Stith Thompson ID:
Linked traditions:
Areal ID
Tradition
12.4.2.7
Algonquin, unspecified Algonkians of the Midwest (probably Old Algonquin)
13.1.2.1
Assiniboine
12.4.3.1
Attikamek
12.1.2.7
Beaver
12.2.2.3
Bella Coola (Nuxalk)
13.1.1.1
Blackfoot
12.3.1.1
Carrier
12.1.2.9
Chipewyan (Dëne Sųłıné)
12.1.2.10
Dogrib, Slavey
12.4.3.6
Eastern Cree
12.4.2.5
Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario)
12.4.3.4
Eastern Swamy Cree
12.4.2.1
Menominee
12.4.3.2
Montagnais
12.4.3.3
Naskapi
12.4.2.3
Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree, Northern Saulteaux)
12.4.4.1
Plains Cree
12.4.4.2
Plains Ojibwa
13.1.1.2
Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina)
12.4.2.4
Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
12.4.3.5
Western Swampy Cree (incl. Rock Cree)
12.4.1.1
Winnebago
12.6.3.3
Wintu, Patwin, Nomlaki
Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif:
b42o1
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif:
m61a3
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif:
m32a
Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 9 Weight: 889
Motif:
m30a
Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 9 Weight: 889
Motif:
b101
Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 9 Weight: 889
Motif:
a38a
Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 8 Weight: 875
Motif:
d4c1
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif:
k1j
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif:
k18c
Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 11 Weight: 818
Motif:
l5e
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif:
b95
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif:
b95a
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif:
j41a
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif:
m69
Shared traditions: 12 All traditions: 17 Weight: 706
Motif:
m93a
Shared traditions: 16 All traditions: 23 Weight: 696
Motif:
h37b
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif:
b16b
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif:
j12l
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 8 Weight: 625
Motif:
b96
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 8 Weight: 625