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Motif

Name_eng:

Three men construct a woman which becomes alive: to whom does she belong?

Description:

Three (rare two or four) men take part in creation of a girl: one cuts her body of wood, another puts clothes on her, the third one makes her alive. To whom does she belong?

Name_rus:

Кто станет мужем созданной девушки?

Description_rus:

Трое (редко четверо или двое) мужчин участвуют в создании девушки: один вырезает фигуру из дерева, другой ее одевает, третий оживляет. Кому должна принадлежать оживленная?

Motif type:

Adventures and tricks

Motif group:

11 Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior

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:

653с

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.4.1.2	Arabs of Sudan
2.1.1.1	Malagasy
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
3.1.3.2	Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
3.1.3.3	Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
3.1.3.5	Morocco Arabs
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs
3.1.3.7	Tunisia Arabs
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.5.1	Stavropol Turkmen (recent migrants from Mangyshlak Peninsular)
5.1.5.2	Nogai
5.1.5.3	Kumyk, Terekemen
5.1.7.6	Rutul, Tsakhur
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.2.2.4	Talysh
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
5.3.2.3	Arabs of Iraq
5.3.2.4	Saudi Arabia
5.3.2.6	Arabs of Kuwait, Bahrein, Qatar, Emirates, Oman,
5.3.3.1	Yemen
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
5.4.2.11	Luri, Bakhtiari
5.4.2.4	Highland Tajik
5.4.2.5	Baluch
5.4.2.7	Bukhara Arabs
5.4.2.8	Uzbek
5.4.3.2	Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi
5.4.3.3	Yazgulami
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
5.5.2.1	Uyghur
5.6.2.13	Rajasthani (Radjasthan and Madhya Pradesh)
5.6.2.18	Oriya (incl. Dom/Domba/Dombo, Ghasi, Bhat and other Oriya-speaking castes of Odisha)
5.6.2.8	Kashmiri
5.6.3.3	Kannada, Lingayat, Halakki
6.1.2.1	Oraon (Kurukh)
6.3.2.1	Khmer
6.3.2.10	Viet, Muong
9.1.3.1	Tuvinians of Tuva
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)