k81


Motif

Motif code: 
k81
Name_eng: 
The handless girl
Description: 

For minor offence or because of false accusation a young girl or woman is maimed and expelled from home (rare: killed or she kills herself). The maimed person magically obtains her body integrity (the dead revives)

Name_rus: 
Безручка
Description_rus: 
За ничтожный проступок или по ложному обвинению молодую женщину калечат и выгоняют из дома (редко: убивают либо она сама калечит себя). Калека чудесным образом выздоравливает (убитая воскресает)
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: 
110
ATU ID: 
706

Linked traditions:
Saudi Arabia
Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
Arabs of Iraq
Arabs of Egypt
Arabs of Libya
Morocco Arabs
Malagasy
Somali
Ngbakka, Mbum (incl Mbai), Mundang, Fali, Tupuri, Maya (=Bali), Nyong
Swahili, Midjikenda (incl Giryama), Nyika, Duruma; Ngindo, Kiluguru and other Islamic groups of the Eastern Coast of Africa
Other West Chadic: Ngas, Bolanchi, Tangale
Yavanese, Kalang, Madura
Northern Munda of Kharwar branch: Birhor, Ho, Mundari, Kol, Asur (including Agaria, Kol, Birjhia), Bhumij
Maria, Muria, and other South-Central Dravidians: Binjhwar, Baсор, Bhattra, Bom, Jhoria (=Jhodia), Gadaba (in Koraput, neighbors of Munda-speaking Gadaba), Duruwa (Parji), Mehtar; Pardhan
Sinhalese; Vedda
Kafir, or Nuristani: Prasun; Kati (incl. Paruni), Ashkun (Ashunu), Waigali
Koreans; Goguryeo
Ireland
England
Scotland
Spain
Portuguese
Basques
Catalan
Aragon
Maltese
Italians: Northern (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Southern Tirol, Emilia–Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino–Alto Adige)
Sicily
Sardinia, Corsica
Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
French (northern France)
Dutch, Flemish
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
Hungarians
Greeks (modern)
Greeks (modern)
Bulgarians
Macedonians
Serbs, Monte Negro,
Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
Slovenians
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Lithuanians
Latvians
Livonians
Estonians
Setu
Votians
Finns
Karelians
Vepsians
Swedes
Danes
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)
Uzbek
Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
Ossetians
Kumyk, Terekemen
Nogai
Tats
Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz
Georgians
Armenians
Anatolia Turks
Kazakh
Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
Mari (Cheremis)
Mordvins
Chuvash
Udmurt
Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
Buryats: Western (cis Baikal)
Mongols (Khalkha)
Daur (Daghur)
Tuvinians of Tuva
Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
Central Yakuts (Sakha)
Baikal RegionTungus/Evenki
Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu
Northern Ryukyu Islands (with southern Kyusyu in case of absence across the rest of Japan
Oroch
Nanai
Kamchadal
Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
Chechens
Icelanders
Parachi, Ormur
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Yughs
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
Early Russian written sources
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
Buryats: Eastern (trans Baikal), i.e. Khori
Frisians
Upper Brittany
Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
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

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