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Motif

Name_eng:

A daughter instead of a son

Description:

An old man needs a son to accomplish a man’s work or service. (Only the youngest) daughter sets to do it (successfully passing her father’s test and) guised as a man

Name_rus:

Дочь в роли сына

Description_rus:

Старику нужен сын, чтобы выполнить мужскую работу. (Лишь младшая) дочь берется за это (успешно выдержав предложенное отцом испытание), выдавая себя за мужчину

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
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.2.6	Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.3.3.1	Bretagne
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.3.5.7	Eastern Prussia
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.2.1	Albanians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
3.5.4.1	Gagauz
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
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)
4.1.3.5	Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.1.5.1	Stavropol Turkmen (recent migrants from Mangyshlak Peninsular)
5.1.7.5	Lezgians, Archin, Kürin; Khinalug
5.1.7.7	Tabasaran, Aghul
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.4.2.8	Uzbek
9.1.2.1	Shor
9.1.2.2	Khakas
9.1.3.3	Tofa (Karagas)