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Motif

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
2.1.1.1	Malagasy
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.)
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs
3.1.3.7	Tunisia Arabs
3.2.1.2	Saho, Afar
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.1.4	Aragon
3.3.1.5	Basques
3.3.2.1	Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)
3.3.2.2	Sicily
3.3.2.3	Sardinia, Corsica
3.3.2.6	Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.3.3.1	Bretagne
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
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
3.3.5.3	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
3.5.2.1	Albanians
3.5.2.3	Bosnia Muslims
3.5.2.4	Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
3.5.4.1	Gagauz
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
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)
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.1.3.2	Abaza (Abazins)
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.1.5.3	Kumyk, Terekemen
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Karata, Akhvakh
5.1.7.3	Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi
5.1.7.8	Udin
5.2.1.2	Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.2.2.5	Kurds
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.4.2.13	Parya of Gissar (Hisor) Valley (Tajikistan)
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.4.2.8	Uzbek
5.4.3.2	Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
5.6.2.1	Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
5.6.2.14	Bengali, Maithili
5.6.2.22	Dogri
5.6.2.8	Kashmiri
6.1.1.4	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)
9.1.5.2	Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)