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k27f
Motif
Motif code:
k27f
Name_eng:
The task: to get a woman
Description:
A task-giver asks the hero to get for him a particular woman
Name_rus:
Задание: добыть женщину
Description_rus:
Властный персонаж требует от героя добыть для него определенную женщину
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.
4. All motifs of category 1 (cosmology) in sub-Saharan Africa and those motifs of category 2 (adventures) which are found in sub-Saharan Africa and widespread in the Indo-Pacific world with scarce or no cases in Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia
Motif analysis result tradition count all:
124
Linked traditions:
Greeks of Cyprus
Yemen
Soqotri
Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
Arabs of Iraq
Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
Western Sahara and Mauritania Arabs; Berbers of Mauritania (Zénaga)
Arabs of Sudan
Swahili, Midjikenda (incl Giryama), Nyika, Duruma; Ngindo, Kiluguru and other Islamic groups of the Eastern Coast of Africa
Sangir Islands
Karen, Pa-O, Padaung, Kayah
Khmer
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)
Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)
Tamil, Muthuvan, Marvar
Sindhi
Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
Sinhalese; Vedda
Lepcha
Ireland
Scotland
Spain
Portuguese
Basques
Maltese
Sicily
Sardinia, Corsica
Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
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
Czech
Slovakians
Greeks (modern)
Bulgarians
Serbs, Monte Negro,
Serbs, Monte Negro,
Bosnia Muslims
Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
Slovenians
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Albanians
Lithuanians
Estonians
Setu
Karelians
Norwegians
Danes
Byelarusians
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)
Uzbek
Wakhi, Ishkashimi (including Sanglich), Munji
Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi
Sarikoli
Highland Tajik
Tajik
Baluch
Persians
Abaza (Abazins)
Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
Karachays, Balkar
Ossetians
Ingush
Lezgians, Archin, Kürin; Khinalug
Rutul, Tsakhur
Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi
Avar, Andi, Akhvakh
Kumyk, Terekemen
Nogai
Svans
Georgians
Armenians
Kalmyk
Crimea Tatars, Karaims
Stavropol Turkmen (recent migrants from Mangyshlak Peninsular)
Gagauz
Anatolia Turks
Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
Kurds
Kara Kalpak
Kazakh
Uyghur
Turkmen
Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
Bashkirs
Mari (Cheremis)
Mordvins
Chuvash
Udmurt
Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
Forest Nenets
Tundra Nenets
Buryats: Western (cis Baikal)
Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)
Tuvinians of Southern Altai
Khakas
Siberian Tatars
Northern Altai: Chelkan, Kumanda, Tubalar
Central Yakuts (Sakha)
Tungus (Evenki) of China (Solon, Birar, Oroqen, Manegir)
Nanai
Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
Chechens
Galicians
Kordofan
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Ukrainians: Northern dialects
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)
Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
Lutsi (Ludza)
Upper Brittany
Terek Cossacks
Russian Pomors ("seasiders"): Lower Pechora
Transylvanian Saksons
Rusyns, Hutsuls
Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
Zaza (western Kurds)
Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif:
m90b
Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 10 Weight: 1000
Motif:
i132b
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif:
k35a7
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 6 Weight: 1000
Motif:
k56ac
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif:
k73b3
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 6 Weight: 1000
Motif:
k35a6
Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 9 Weight: 1000
Motif:
m39a4d
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif:
k182a
Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 11 Weight: 1000
Motif:
b125a
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 5 Weight: 1000
Motif:
n25
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif:
m60a3
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif:
i132a
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 5 Weight: 1000
Motif:
l122a
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 6 Weight: 1000
Motif:
m109d
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 2 Weight: 1000
Motif:
m39a3b
Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 8 Weight: 1000
Motif:
n26
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif:
i92a
Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 9 Weight: 1000
Motif:
l81a1
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 5 Weight: 1000
Motif:
i95b
Shared traditions: 12 All traditions: 12 Weight: 1000
Motif:
k73b7
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000