k58


Motif

Motif code: 
k58
Name_eng: 
Construction of watercause
Description: 

Person builds a watercourse or digs a well as a condition of marriage. (Usually the woman breaks her promise to marry the winner and she or her bridegroom die)

Name_rus: 
Строитель канала
Description_rus: 
Чтобы добиться руки избранницы, персонаж строит канал или акведук либо копает колодец. (Обычно женщина в итоге не выходит замуж за выполнившего работу, а она сама или претендент на ее руку гибнут)
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: 
10

Linked traditions:
Spain
Greeks (modern)
Uzbek
Khwarezm Uzbek; Turkic written tradition from Kök Orda
Wakhi, Ishkashimi (including Sanglich), Munji
Tajik
Georgians
Armenians
Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
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

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: m168b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: i22g1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: k35a2 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: m90a3 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: m152c Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: k14c1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: k172 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: k90a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 10 Weight: 400
Motif: j32b Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 10 Weight: 400
Motif: l15f Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 13 Weight: 385
Motif: k80c3 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: b73a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: k32l Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 11 Weight: 364
Motif: k73b2 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: l40c Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: j25a1 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: b105 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 9 Weight: 333
Motif: k129a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: k9a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333