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Motif

Name_eng:

Old woman’s curse

Description:

A youth or (rare) girl offends an elder woman. Her words make him or her to be overcome by desire to undertake something dangerous (usually to get a particular marriage partner)

Name_rus:

Проклятье старухи

Description_rus:

Мальчик, юноша, реже девушка намеренно или случайно обижает пожилую женщину. Она произносит слова, из-за которых у него или у нее возникло желание предпринять нечто опасное (чаще всего найти брачного партнера)

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs
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
5.3.2.1	Aramaic (Syrians)
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Akhvakh
3.1.3.3	Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
3.3.3.1	Bretagne
5.4.2.7	Bukhara Arabs
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
6.2.1.1	Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.4.4.2	Dards (Kalash, Kho, Kohistani, Shina, Pashai)
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.5.4.1	Gagauz
5.2.1.1	Georgians
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
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)
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.1.3.2	Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
5.6.3.3	Kannada, Lingayat, Halakki
5.5.1.2	Kara Kalpak
4.2.3.2	Karelians
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
1.4.1.3	Kordofan
10.2.4.1	Koreans; Goguryeo
3.3.2.5	Maltese
5.2.1.2	Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz
5.1.5.2	Nogai
6.1.1.3	Northern Munda of Kharwar branch: Birhor, Ho, Mundari, Kol, Asur (including Agaria, Kol, Birjhia), Bhumij
6.1.2.1	Oraon (Kurukh)
6.1.2.1	Oraon (Kurukh)
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.4.2.1	Persians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.3.5	Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.1.3.8	Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.1.3.3	Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
3.3.2.3	Sardinia, Corsica
5.3.2.4	Saudi Arabia
3.3.2.2	Sicily
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.6.3.4	Tamil, Muthuvan, Marvar
3.1.3.7	Tunisia Arabs
9.1.3.2	Tuvinians of Southern Altai
5.1.2.2	Urums, Rumei
5.5.2.1	Uyghur
5.4.2.8	Uzbek