k27zz


Motif

Motif code: 
k27zz
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: 
26
ATU ID: 
462

Linked traditions:
Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
Arabs of Egypt
Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
Algeria Arabs
Tunisia Arabs
Arabs of Sudan
Bali, Lombok
Thai of Thailand
Shan
Khmer
Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)
Kannada, Lingayat, Halakki
Tamil, Muthuvan, Marvar
Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
Kashmiri
Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
Sinhalese; Vedda
Spain
Catalan
Persians
Mustang
Lao
Kumaoni (Central Pahari), incl. Garhwali
Arabs of Kuwait, Bahrein, Qatar, Emirates, Oman,
Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
Arakan, Chakma, Khyang

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: k27zz1 Shared traditions: 18 All traditions: 19 Weight: 947
Motif: k27zz2 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: k27z2c Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: k27z2 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: k27z2a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: k73a5a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: k56a8b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: k32b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: k27z2a1 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: k27zy Shared traditions: 19 All traditions: 33 Weight: 576
Motif: m39a4d Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: m38b1 Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 18 Weight: 500
Motif: k61f Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: j6a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: h40a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: m171d Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 10 Weight: 500
Motif: m197d Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 8 Weight: 500
Motif: k131c Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: m188a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 8 Weight: 500