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k37a
Motif
Motif code:
k37a
Name_eng:
To recognize a man
Description:
Person must recognize her (or his) son or husband among several identical persons or animals
Name_rus:
Опознать мужчину
Description_rus:
Персонаж должен опознать сына или мужа среди многих одинаковых людей или животных
Motif type:
Adventures and tricks
Motif group:
10 Adventures
Motif analysis result:
2. Only those motifs that are found in America (including the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans)
Motif analysis result tradition count all:
64
Linked traditions:
Shone (Shona, =Mashona, =Karanga), Makoni (Shoni dialect), Remba (=Hungwe, Wahungwe); Zezuru, Rozwi, Ndau (Vandau)
Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
Ireland
Spain
Portuguese
Sicily
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
Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
Slovakians
Bulgarians
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Lithuanians
Latvians
Estonians
Setu
Finns
Vepsians
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
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)
Persians
Abkhaz
Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz
Georgians
Kalmyk
Gagauz
Kirghiz
Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
Mari (Cheremis)
Mordvins
Chuvash
Udmurt
Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
Shor
Central Yakuts (Sakha)
Udeghe
Blackfoot
Cheyenne
Santee
Mandan
Osage
Omaha, Ponca
Oto
Arikara
Pawnee
Wichita; Spiro Mound iconography
Crow
Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)
Lisu, Achang, Taunyo
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
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Ukrainians: Northern dialects
Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
Lutsi (Ludza)
Upper Brittany
Terek Cossacks
Russian Pomors ("seasiders"): Lower Pechora
Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
Occitanie (southern France): Limousin, Auvergne, Provence, Aquitaine, Albret, Gers, Aveyron (Rouerge), Armagnac, Landes, Gascogne, Vivarés, Roussillon, Pyrénées, Bearne, Guyenne, Bigorre, Ain, Hautes Alpes, Ariège, Vienne, Aude, French part of Swiss
Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif:
k113b
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif:
i50a1
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif:
m199m
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 6 Weight: 1000
Motif:
f87b
Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 9 Weight: 1000
Motif:
k181a
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif:
l108g
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif:
k73b7
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif:
k56ac
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif:
i87e
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 5 Weight: 1000
Motif:
j47a1
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 5 Weight: 1000
Motif:
f9g1
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 6 Weight: 1000
Motif:
i22g1
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif:
k80a3
Shared traditions: 15 All traditions: 16 Weight: 938
Motif:
l42i1
Shared traditions: 14 All traditions: 15 Weight: 933
Motif:
i42g3
Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 11 Weight: 909
Motif:
k27x8
Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 11 Weight: 909
Motif:
m191c
Shared traditions: 15 All traditions: 17 Weight: 882
Motif:
m39a3b
Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 8 Weight: 875
Motif:
k80a5
Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 8 Weight: 875