j62c


Motif

Motif code: 
j62c
Name_eng: 
Sister asks her brother to obtain impossible
Description: 

To get rid of a young man, his female antagonist uses a stratagem. She tells his sister (rare: tells directly him) about some wonderful objects and the girl is overcome with the desire to have them. An attempt to obtain these objects entails a risk for one’s life. The youth sets off to obtain the objects

Name_rus: 
Сестра просит брата добыть невозможное
Description_rus: 
Чтобы погубить юношу, антагонистка возбуждает у его сестры (редко: у него самого) желание обладать чудесными предметами, попытка достать которые смертельно опасна. Юноша отправляется добывать предметы
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: 
61

Linked traditions:
Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
Arabs of Egypt
Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
Algeria Arabs
Tunisia Arabs
Malagasy
Saho, Afar
Bhuiya (now Aryans, originally Munda; Rahman 1955: 203), Baiga, Bhaina, Bhumia (subgroup of Baiga, incl Bharia, formerly Munda, now speak Indo-Aryan languages of neighboring groups)
Bengali, Maithili
Kashmiri
Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
Spain
Portuguese
Basques
Aragon
Italians: Northern (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Southern Tirol, Emilia–Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino–Alto Adige)
Sicily
Sardinia, Corsica
Bretagne
French (northern France)
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
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
Czech
Slovakians
Hungarians
Greeks (modern)
Bulgarians
Bosnia Muslims
Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Albanians
Lithuanians
Karelians
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
Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi
Tajik
Abaza (Abazins)
Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
Abkhaz
Ossetians
Udin
Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi
Avar, Andi, Akhvakh
Kumyk, Terekemen
Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz
Armenians
Crimea Tatars, Karaims
Gagauz
Anatolia Turks
Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
Kurds
Kirghiz
Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)
Parya of Gissar (Hisor) Valley (Tajikistan)
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
Dogri

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: j32b Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 10 Weight: 1000
Motif: k73a5a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: n19 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif: m109d Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 2 Weight: 1000
Motif: i47a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif: k56a5a Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 9 Weight: 889
Motif: h54a Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 8 Weight: 875
Motif: l85d Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: j51a2 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: k73a7 Shared traditions: 25 All traditions: 30 Weight: 833
Motif: m114f Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: m154a1 Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 10 Weight: 800
Motif: k155a Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 14 Weight: 786
Motif: b33f2 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 9 Weight: 778
Motif: k27z2f Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 9 Weight: 778
Motif: l15h3 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 9 Weight: 778
Motif: k85a Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 9 Weight: 778
Motif: m199j Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 13 Weight: 769
Motif: m39a4d Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750