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Motif

Name_eng:

Wife is not the best friend

Description:

A man himself or somebody else creates situation that demonstrates that his wife is not his best friend. Often a treacherous wife is contrasted with a true dog

Name_rus:

Жена – это не лучший друг

Description_rus:

Сам человек или кто-то другой создает ситуацию, при которой он убеждается, что не жена его лучший друг. Обычно предательница-жена противопоставлена верной собаке

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:

ATU ID:

921B

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.4.2.1	Dinka, Atuot, Nuer
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs
3.3.2.4	Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
3.3.2.6	Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
3.3.4.2	Wales
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
3.3.5.2	Frisians
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.4.1.1	Ancient Greece
3.4.1.2	Ancient Italy: Latins, Etruscans, Magna Graecia
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)
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.1.3.3	Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
4.2.1.3	Danes
4.2.2.2	Eastern Sami (including Inari, Skolts)
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.4.1	Votians
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
9.1.3.1	Tuvinians of Tuva