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Motif

Name_eng:

The blinded bride

Description:

Wicked stepmother (aunt, a rival) blinds a young woman. The heroine returns her eyes (often gets them back in exchange for some values)

Name_rus:

Ослепленная героиня

Description_rus:

Мачеха (тетка, соперница) ослепляет молодую женщину. Та возвращает свои глаза (часто – выменивает их на какие-то ценности)

Motif type:

Adventures and tricks

Motif group:

10 Adventures

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:

ATU ID:

404

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
3.5.2.1	Albanians
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
5.3.2.3	Arabs of Iraq
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
1.4.1.2	Arabs of Sudan
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.5.2.4	Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
3.3.1.6	Galicians
5.2.1.1	Georgians
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
5.4.2.4	Highland Tajik
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
3.3.2.6	Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
3.3.2.1	Italians: Northern (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Southern Tirol, Emilia–Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino–Alto Adige)
3.1.3.2	Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
5.2.2.5	Kurds
5.1.7.4	Laks
5.3.3.2	Mehri; Harsusi, Jibbali (Shahri, Shauri), Hobyot
5.2.1.2	Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz
3.1.3.5	Morocco Arabs
3.3.3.5	Occitanie (southern France): Limousin, Auvergne, Provence, Aquitaine, Albret, Gers, Aveyron (Rouerge), Armagnac, Landes, Gascogne, Vivarés, Roussillon, Pyrénées, Bearne, Guyenne, Bigorre, Ain, Hautes Alpes, Ariège, Vienne, Aude, French part of Swiss
5.4.2.1	Persians
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.3.2.2	Sicily
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
3.3.1.1	Spain
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.6.3.4	Tamil, Muthuvan, Marvar
3.1.3.7	Tunisia Arabs
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
5.4.2.8	Uzbek