m38c

Motif

Name_eng:

Superb blacksmith

Description:

A blacksmith is (seems to be) able make people young, cure maimed people and animals

Name_rus:

Чудесный кузнец

Description_rus:

Кузнец (якобы) способен омолаживать людей, делать целыми искалеченных людей и животных

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs
1.4.1.2	Arabs of Sudan
3.3.1.5	Basques
3.3.3.1	Bretagne
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
3.3.1.3	Catalan
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.2.1.3	Danes
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
3.3.4.4	England
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.3.1	Finns
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.3.5.2	Frisians
5.2.1.1	Georgians
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.3.5.3	Germans: Northwest (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl. East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
1.3.1.4	Igbo (Ibo); Isoko, Urhobo
3.3.4.1	Ireland
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)
4.1.1.2	Kashubians, Poles of Polish Pomorie
4.1.1.2	Kashubians, Poles of Polish Pomorie
4.1.1.2	Kashubians, Poles of Polish Pomorie
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.2.4.5	Lutsi (Ludza)
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
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
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
3.3.2.4	Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
4.1.3.1	Russians: Central part of Russian ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500: Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, eastern part of Smolensk provinces (most of Smolensk province is Belorussian ethnic territory)
4.1.3.4	Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
4.1.3.8	Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.1.3.6	Russians: Southern part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Belgorod, Voronezh, Tambov, Penza, Lipetsk, Orel, Kursk, Bryansk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Samara, Simbirsk and Saratov provinces)
3.3.4.3	Scotland
3.3.2.2	Sicily
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
3.3.1.1	Spain
4.2.1.4	Swedes
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
3.3.3.4	Upper Brittany
3.3.3.3	Wallons, Picardie