m39h


Motif

Motif code: 
m39h
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 analysis result tradition count all: 
60
ATU ID: 
1380

Linked traditions:
Saudi Arabia
Yemen
Arabs of Egypt
Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
Amhara; Zay, Harari; Silte, Gogot
Khmer
Northern Munda of Kharwar branch: Birhor, Ho, Mundari, Kol, Asur (including Agaria, Kol, Birjhia), Bhumij
Oraon (Kurukh)
Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
Sinhalese; Vedda
Burusho (Hunza)
Ireland
England
Spain
Portuguese
Catalan
Maltese
Italians: Northern (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Southern Tirol, Emilia–Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino–Alto Adige)
Dutch, Flemish
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
Poles
Greeks (modern)
Bulgarians
Serbs, Monte Negro,
Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Lithuanians
Latvians
Estonians
Finns
Karelians
Vepsians
Norwegians
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)
Uzbek
Yazgulami
Baluch
Persians
Georgians
Anatolia Turks
Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
Bashkirs
Udmurt
Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
Oriya (incl. Dom/Domba/Dombo, Ghasi, Bhat and other Oriya-speaking castes of Odisha)
Icelanders
Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
Ukrainians: Eastern 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
Russian Pomors ("seasiders"): Lower Pechora
Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)

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