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Motif

Name_eng:

Thread should enter the needle’s eye

Description:

Being alone and having no other marriage partners, brother and sister agree to marry each other if a highly improbable event will take place: a thread that is far from a needle has to enter the needle’s eye.

Name_rus:

Пусть нитка войдет в ушко

Description_rus:

Оказавшись одни и не имея других брачных партнеров, брат и сестра обусловливают возможность вступить в брак друг с другом наступлением невероятного события: находящаяся далеко от иголки нитка должна войти в игольное ушко

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

05 Origin of human beings, ethnic groups, etiology of human anatomy, strange body configuration, ways of behavior, marriages before the establishment of the present norms

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
10.2.2.3	Sichuan Chinese
10.2.2.8	Chinese of Qinghai and Gansu provinces and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
10.2.2.8	Chinese of Qinghai and Gansu provinces and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
10.2.3.1	Lahu, Kucong, Yi, Nosu (Nuosu, Northern Yi), Nisu, Nusu, Sani, Jino, Lolo (incl. Bai), Axi, Nasu
10.2.3.4	Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China
10.2.3.5	Meo (Hmong) of Thailand, Laos and Northern Vietnam
9.10.1.3	Udeghe
9.10.3.1	Manchu