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Motif

Name_eng:

The witch and the blinded queens

Description:

A man does not know that his (new) wife (rare: mother) is an ogress/witch/evil woman. Thanks to her intrigues (former) wives (wife) are blinded and/or confined in an underground hole. A son of one of them overcomes the ogress and returns sight to his mother and aunts

Name_rus:

Людоедка и ослепленные жены

Description_rus:

Человек не подозревает, что его (новая) жена (реже мать) людоедка/колдунья, коварная женщина; она ослепляет (прежних) жен (жену) и/или бросает их в яму либо муж делает это по ее наущению. Вопреки козням людоедки, сын одной из жен остается живых, убивает людоедку, спасает мать и ее сестер

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:

ATU ID:

462

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.4.1.2	Arabs of Sudan
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
3.1.3.2	Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs
3.1.3.7	Tunisia Arabs
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.2.6	Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.3.2.6	Arabs of Kuwait, Bahrein, Qatar, Emirates, Oman,
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.6.2.1	Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
5.6.2.17	Sinhalese; Vedda
5.6.2.19	Kumaoni (Central Pahari), incl. Garhwali
5.6.2.8	Kashmiri
5.6.2.9	Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
5.6.3.3	Kannada, Lingayat, Halakki
5.6.3.4	Tamil, Muthuvan, Marvar
6.1.2.3	Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)
6.2.2.3	Mustang
6.3.1.3	Shan
6.3.1.4	Thai of Thailand
6.3.1.5	Lao
6.3.1.7	Arakan, Chakma, Khyang
6.3.2.1	Khmer
6.4.5.3	Bali, Lombok