a38b


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 IDTradition
12.4.2.7Algonquin, unspecified Algonkians of the Midwest (probably Old Algonquin)
13.1.2.1Assiniboine
12.4.3.1Attikamek
12.1.2.7Beaver
12.2.2.3Bella Coola (Nuxalk)
13.1.1.1Blackfoot
12.3.1.1Carrier
12.1.2.9Chipewyan (Dëne Sųłıné)
12.1.2.10Dogrib, Slavey
12.4.3.6Eastern Cree
12.4.2.5Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario)
12.4.3.4Eastern Swamy Cree
12.4.2.1Menominee
12.4.3.2Montagnais
12.4.3.3Naskapi
12.4.2.3Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree, Northern Saulteaux)
12.4.4.1Plains Cree
12.4.4.2Plains Ojibwa
13.1.1.2Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina)
12.4.2.4Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
12.4.3.5Western Swampy Cree (incl. Rock Cree)
12.4.1.1Winnebago
12.6.3.3Wintu, 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