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Motif

Name_eng:

Husband pretends to become blind (The faithless wife)

Description:

A married woman is eager to get rid of her husband and usually asks a spirit (God, saint, etc.) to make him blind. The husband hides in a tree, behind the alter, etc. and usually tells her that good food will make her husnad blind, or the husband himself tells his wife that the good food is dangerous for him. He pretends to become blind, kills the love (and his wife)

Name_rus:

Муж притворился ослепшим

Description_rus:

Жена хочет избавиться от мужа и обычно просит духа его ослепить. Муж прячется в дупле, за алтарем и т.п. и отвечает от имени духа (обычно советует погубить мужа хорошей едой), либо муж рассказывает жене, что от вкусной еды можно ослепнуть. Притворившись ослепшим, муж убивает любовника (и жену)

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:

1380

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
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.)
3.2.2.1	Amhara; Zay, Harari; Silte, Gogot
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.2.1	Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)
3.3.2.5	Maltese
3.3.2.6	Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.3.2.8	Italians: Northeast (Trentino – Alto Adige, Veneto, Venezia Giulia, Southern Tirol, Friuli, Istria)
3.3.4.1	Ireland
3.3.4.4	England
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
3.3.5.3	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
3.3.5.4	Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.2.4	Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
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)
4.1.3.3	Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
4.1.3.4	Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
4.1.3.7	Russian Pomors ("seasiders"): Lower Pechora
4.1.3.8	Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.1.3.8	Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.2.1.3	Danes
4.2.1.4	Swedes
4.2.1.5	Icelanders
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.3.3	Vepsians
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.3.2.4	Saudi Arabia
5.3.3.1	Yemen
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.5	Baluch
5.4.2.8	Uzbek
5.4.3.3	Yazgulami
5.4.4.3	Burusho (Hunza)
5.6.1.1	Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
5.6.2.17	Sinhalese; Vedda
5.6.2.18	Oriya (incl. Dom/Domba/Dombo, Ghasi, Bhat and other Oriya-speaking castes of Odisha)
5.6.2.9	Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
6.1.1.3	Northern Munda of Kharwar branch: Birhor, Ho, Mundari, Kol, Asur (including Agaria, Kol, Birjhia), Bhumij
6.1.2.1	Oraon (Kurukh)
6.3.2.1	Khmer