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Motif

Name_eng:

A strained bow

Description:

An unrecognized hero comes to a place where his bride or wife has to marry another man or is tuned into a slave. Despite expectations, he gets to strain a tight bow killing his rivals

Name_rus:

Натянутый лук

Description_rus:

Неузнанный герой приходит туда, где его невеста или жена должна быть отдана другому или превращена в служанку. Вопреки ожиданию, ему удается натянуть тугой лук, из которого он убивает соперников

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:

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Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
10.3.2.1	Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu
10.3.2.2	Northern Ryukyu Islands (with southern Kyusyu in case of absence across the rest of Japan
3.4.1.1	Ancient Greece
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.1.3.2	Abaza (Abazins)
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.5.3	Kumyk, Terekemen
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Karata, Akhvakh
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
5.4.4.3	Burusho (Hunza)
5.5.2.5	Salars
5.5.2.6	Hui of Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Qinghai (rare Hui texts from Southern and Eastern China are clustered with the Chinese ones)
6.2.3.7	Mikir (Karbi)
6.2.4.1	Kachin (Jingpho), Chak, Maru
9.1.1.4	Siberian Tatars
9.1.3.2	Tuvinians of Southern Altai
9.3.4.1	Evens (Lamuts)