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Motif

Name_eng:

Old woman becomes a young beauty

Description:

An old or ugly woman is transformed into a young beauty or becomes rich. Usually another old woman tries to imitate her but dies or suffers a reverse

Name_rus:

Старуха делается красавицей

Description_rus:

Старая или уродливая женщина, не ожидая того, делается юной красавицей или обретает богатство. Обычно другая пытается повторить ее действия и гибнет либо терпит ущерб

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:

877

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.2.2	Sicily
3.3.2.3	Sardinia, Corsica
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.3.2.8	Italians: Northeast (Trentino – Alto Adige, Veneto, Venezia Giulia, Southern Tirol, Friuli, Istria)
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.2.1.3	Danes
4.2.5.1	Latvians
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.6.3.2	Malayali; Kannikaran
5.6.3.4	Tamil, Muthuvan, Marvar