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Motif

Name_eng:

Frog or toad-wife

Description:

Man marries frog- or toad-woman

Name_rus:

Жена – лягушка или жаба

Description_rus:

Человек берет в жены женщину, имеющую образ лягушки или жабы

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
3.1.3.7	Tunisia Arabs
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.2.1	Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
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
3.3.5.4	Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
3.3.5.6	Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.2.4	Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.1.3	Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.3	Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.1.3.6	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)
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.2.3.3	Vepsians
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Karata, Akhvakh
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.4.2.4	Highland Tajik
5.4.3.2	Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi
5.5.2.1	Uyghur
6.1.1.3	Northern Munda of Kharwar branch: Birhor, Ho, Mundari, Kol, Asur (including Agaria, Kol, Birjhia), Bhumij
6.3.1.1	Burmese, Intha
6.3.2.4	Katu (Ködu); Bru (incl. Van Kieu, Khua)
6.3.2.5	Mon
9.1.1.2	Southern Altai: Teleut