i87


Motif

Motif code: 
i87
Name_eng: 
Skull as a cave
Description: 

Personages use a shelter which proves to be an object related to the world of the giants (a skull, a shoulder-blade, a mitten)

Name_rus: 
Череп-пещера
Description_rus: 
Персонажи используют в качестве укрытия предмет (череп, лопатка животного, рукавица), принадлежащий миру великанов
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.
Motif analysis result tradition count all: 
18

Linked traditions:
Saudi Arabia
Serbs, Monte Negro,
Karelians
Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia)
Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
Abkhaz
Karachays, Balkar
Ossetians
Ingush
Laks
Avar, Andi, Akhvakh
Kumyk, Terekemen
Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz
Georgians
Kalmyk
Kirghiz
Chechens
Russian Pomors ("seasiders"): Lower Pechora

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: c33b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: k73b2 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: k38f3 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 2 Weight: 1000
Motif: c33a1 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: n9 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: l9c Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 15 Weight: 733
Motif: b33e Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: l85d Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: m116b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: l110b Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: i82e Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: k77b3 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: f100a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: f100b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: l122a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: k167b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: k184 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: i87ad Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 9 Weight: 667
Motif: k27l1 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 11 Weight: 636