k120a2


Motif

Motif code: 
k120a2
Name_eng: 
Not my mother but my mother-in-law
Description: 

Members of the girl’s family want to marry her to a man who should not be her marriage partner (usually it is her own brother). They ask her to name them as her in-laws or the girl herself tells that they are not anymore her mother, sister, etc. but her mother-in-law, sister-in-law, etc. or her worst enemies

Name_rus: 
Не матерью, а свекровью
Description_rus: 
Члены семьи хотят выдать дочь за человека, брак с которым для нее неприемлем (обычно хотят выдать ее за ее же брата). Девушка отказывается обращаться к отцу, матери и т.д. как к соответствующим близким родственникам, а называет свойственниками (свекровь, золовка и т.п.) или врагами; либо сами родственники требуют, чтобы девушка обращалась к ним как к свойственникам
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: 
21

Linked traditions:
Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
Tunisia Arabs
Arabs of Sudan
Bilin (Blin, Bilen)
Ngbakka, Mbum (incl Mbai), Mundang, Fali, Tupuri, Maya (=Bali), Nyong
Bhuiya (now Aryans, originally Munda; Rahman 1955: 203), Baiga, Bhaina, Bhumia (subgroup of Baiga, incl Bharia, formerly Munda, now speak Indo-Aryan languages of neighboring groups)
Maria, Muria, and other South-Central Dravidians: Binjhwar, Baсор, Bhattra, Bom, Jhoria (=Jhodia), Gadaba (in Koraput, neighbors of Munda-speaking Gadaba), Duruwa (Parji), Mehtar; Pardhan
Kannada, Lingayat, Halakki
Rajasthani (Radjasthan and Madhya Pradesh)
Kirati (Kiranti): Rai (incl Thulung), Limbu, Newar
Lithuanians
Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi
Yazgulami
Sarikoli
Yagnobi
Highland Tajik
Bukhara Arabs
Kirghiz
Turkmen
Oriya (incl. Dom/Domba/Dombo, Ghasi, Bhat and other Oriya-speaking castes of Odisha)
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: l108b2 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: b32a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: j6a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: l39b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: c8d Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: l81a3 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: k27zz4 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: e41 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: k27z4b Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 16 Weight: 375
Motif: m127c Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 17 Weight: 353
Motif: k120a Shared traditions: 20 All traditions: 58 Weight: 345
Motif: k113b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: k73b7 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: k73a5a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: m57c1 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 9 Weight: 333
Motif: b33g Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: k181a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: l108g Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: b108 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333