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k118a
Motif
Motif code:
k118a
Name_eng:
A portrait of an unknown beauty
Description:
After seeing a portrait of an unknown beauty, a man is eager to meet her
Name_rus:
Портрет неизвестной красавицы
Description_rus:
Увидев портрет красавицы, мужчина стремится встретиться с ней
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:
62
Linked traditions:
Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
Sangir Islands
Karen, Pa-O, Padaung, Kayah
Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
Tamil, Muthuvan, Marvar
Bengali, Maithili
Sindhi
Sinhalese; Vedda
Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China
Spain
Portuguese
Catalan
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
Poles
Kashubians, Poles of Polish Pomorie
Czech
Greeks (modern)
Slovenians
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Latvians
Karelians
Norwegians
Swedes
Danes
Uzbek
Wakhi, Ishkashimi (including Sanglich), Munji
Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi
Tajik
Persians
Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
Abkhaz
Karachays, Balkar
Ossetians
Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz
Armenians
Anatolia Turks
Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
Kurds
Kazakh
Uyghur
Bashkirs
Chuvash
Buryats: Western (cis Baikal)
Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu
Northern Ryukyu Islands (with southern Kyusyu in case of absence across the rest of Japan
Oriya (incl. Dom/Domba/Dombo, Ghasi, Bhat and other Oriya-speaking castes of Odisha)
Mustang
Chechens
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
Russians: Southern part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Belgorod, Voronezh, Tambov, Penza, Lipetsk, Orel, Kursk, Bryansk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Samara, Simbirsk and Saratov provinces)
Upper Brittany
Rusyns, Hutsuls
Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
Eastern Prussia
Khamti, Ahom
Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif:
k181a
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif:
k131c
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 2 Weight: 1000
Motif:
m39a4d
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif:
i82e
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif:
k35a6
Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 9 Weight: 889
Motif:
b104b
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif:
i100c
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif:
k25a4a
Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 10 Weight: 800
Motif:
j32b
Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 10 Weight: 800
Motif:
k27z2f
Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 9 Weight: 778
Motif:
k56a5a
Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 9 Weight: 778
Motif:
k93b6
Shared traditions: 13 All traditions: 17 Weight: 765
Motif:
n9
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif:
k38b3c
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif:
l4a
Shared traditions: 12 All traditions: 16 Weight: 750
Motif:
k27z2
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif:
l23a
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 8 Weight: 750
Motif:
k27f3
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif:
i22g1
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750