k120a1


Motif

Motif code: 
k120a1
Name_eng: 
Three dresses
Description: 

In order to delay a wedding with an undesirable suitor (her own brother or father, a monster), a girl asks him to give her a dress (often three dresses in succession) of unusual material (like gold, of fly wings, etc.). He does it but the girl runs away

Name_rus: 
Три платья
Description_rus: 
Чтобы избавиться от нежелательного жениха (собственного отца, брата, монстра), девушка требует от него добыть для нее платье (чаще последовательно три платья) из необычного материала (золотое, из мушиных крылышек и т.п.), а когда условие выполнено, убегает
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: 
44

Linked traditions:
Ireland
England
Scotland
Spain
Portuguese
Basques
Catalan
Aragon
Italians: Northern (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Southern Tirol, Emilia–Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino–Alto Adige)
Sicily
Sardinia, Corsica
Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
Bretagne
French (northern France)
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
Czech
Slovakians
Greeks (modern)
Bulgarians
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Latvians
Livonians
Finns
Karelians
Vepsians
Swedes
Danes
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
Byelarusians
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)
Gagauz
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Ukrainians: Northern dialects
Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
Upper Brittany
Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
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
Eastern Prussia

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: m109d Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 2 Weight: 1000
Motif: k27f3 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif: m45b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: i22g1 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif: k107e1 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif: m38c2 Shared traditions: 12 All traditions: 13 Weight: 923
Motif: k37b Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 12 Weight: 917
Motif: k25a4a Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 10 Weight: 900
Motif: k56a5a Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 9 Weight: 889
Motif: b33b Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 8 Weight: 875
Motif: m198b1 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
Motif: k64c Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
Motif: i59b2 Shared traditions: 17 All traditions: 20 Weight: 850
Motif: m39a4f Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 13 Weight: 846
Motif: k56e1 Shared traditions: 16 All traditions: 19 Weight: 842
Motif: k176a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: k100i Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: j51a2 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: i100d Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833