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Motif

Name_eng:

Helpful girl is dismembered and revived

Description:

When it is necessary to get an object from a place that is difficult to reach, a girl asks to cut her into pieces (or only to cut off her fingers and toes) and then to put pieces together again. She revives

Name_rus:

Левушка-помощница расчленена и собрана вновь

Description_rus:

Чтобы достать предмет из труднодоступного места, девушка велит ее расчленить (или только отрубить пальцы), а затем собрать, она оживает

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
3.1.3.2	Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.1.5	Basques
3.3.1.6	Galicians
3.3.2.1	Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)
3.3.2.3	Sardinia, Corsica
3.3.2.3	Sardinia, Corsica
3.3.2.4	Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
3.3.2.8	Italians: Northeast (Trentino – Alto Adige, Veneto, Venezia Giulia, Southern Tirol, Friuli, Istria)
3.3.3.1	Bretagne
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.3.3.4	Upper Brittany
3.3.3.5	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
3.3.4.1	Ireland
3.3.4.3	Scotland
3.3.4.4	England
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.2.1.4	Swedes