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e9o
Motif
Motif code:
e9o
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:
42
Linked traditions:
Tunisia Arabs
Burmese, Intha
Katu (Ködu); Bru (incl. Van Kieu, Khua)
Mon
Northern Munda of Kharwar branch: Birhor, Ho, Mundari, Kol, Asur (including Agaria, Kol, Birjhia), Bhumij
Spain
Catalan
Italians: Northern (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Southern Tirol, Emilia–Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino–Alto Adige)
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
Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
Greeks (modern)
Bulgarians
Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
Lithuanians
Latvians
Vepsians
Norwegians
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
Byelarusians
Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi
Highland Tajik
Abkhaz
Ossetians
Avar, Andi, Akhvakh
Georgians
Armenians
Anatolia Turks
Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
Uyghur
Bashkirs
Mari (Cheremis)
Southern Altai: Teleut
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Ukrainians: Northern dialects
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)
Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
Rusyns, Hutsuls
Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif:
i87e
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 5 Weight: 1000
Motif:
j25a1
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif:
k113b
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif:
a32m
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
Motif:
k33c5
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif:
h55a
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif:
i42g3
Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 11 Weight: 818
Motif:
k80a5
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 8 Weight: 750
Motif:
h54a
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 8 Weight: 750
Motif:
a32d2
Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 14 Weight: 714
Motif:
n32
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif:
k64c
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif:
b103
Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 13 Weight: 692
Motif:
h24d
Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 13 Weight: 692
Motif:
k9a
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif:
c33b
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif:
k27z2f
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 9 Weight: 667
Motif:
k85c
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 9 Weight: 667
Motif:
i87f
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667