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Motif

Name_eng:

The best is one whom you love

Description:

A mighty person asks a man which of two women is prettier, what is the most beautiful thing, and the like. Giving a correct answer, the man is not killed like those who were before him but receives a reward

Name_rus:

Лучше та, которую любишь

Description_rus:

Юноша не убит, а награжден, ибо верно (уклончиво) ответил на вопрос могущественного персонажа – на какой из двух женщин тот должен жениться, какая красивее, какой объект или материал ценнее, и т.п.

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:

(677, 986)

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
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)
4.1.3.1	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)
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.1.3.3	Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
4.1.3.5	Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
4.1.3.5	Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
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)
4.1.3.7	Russian Pomors ("seasiders"): Lower Pechora
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Karata, Akhvakh
5.1.7.3	Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi
5.1.7.4	Laks
5.1.7.5	Lezgians, Archin, Kürin; Khinalug
5.1.7.7	Tabasaran, Aghul
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.2.2.5	Kurds
5.3.2.1	Aramaic (Syrians)
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.4.2.5	Baluch
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
5.6.2.9	Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)