k93a


Motif

Name_eng: 
Sword of chastity
Description: 

Sleeping in one bed with a woman, man puts a sharp or thorny object between them as a sign of chastity (sometimes the woman herself puts the sword)

Name_rus: 
Меч на брачной постели
Description_rus: 
Ложась с женщиной, мужчина кладет между ней и собой острый или колючий предмет в знак того, что ночью он будет соблюдать воздержание (иногда меч кладет сама женщина)
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: 
52
Stith Thompson ID: 
T351

Linked traditions:
Areal IDTradition
1.4.1.1Nubians
1.4.1.3Kordofan
1.4.4.5Ngbakka, Mbum (incl Mbai), Mundang, Fali, Tupuri, Maya (=Bali), Nyong
2.1.1.1Malagasy
3.3.1.1Spain
3.3.1.2Portuguese
3.3.1.3Catalan
3.3.2.1Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)
3.3.2.4Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
3.3.3.1Bretagne
3.3.3.2French (northern France)
3.3.3.4Upper Brittany
3.3.3.5Occitanie (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
3.3.4.1Ireland
3.5.1.1Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2Bulgarians
3.5.2.2Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.3.1Hungarians
4.1.1.1Poles
4.1.1.5Slovakians
4.2.1.1Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia)
4.2.1.2Norwegians
4.2.1.3Danes
4.2.1.4Swedes
4.2.1.5Icelanders
4.2.5.1Latvians
4.2.5.2Lithuanians
4.3.2.2Mordvins
4.3.3.2Bashkirs
5.1.2.1Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.1.3.3Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.4.1Karachays, Balkar
5.1.7.1Avar, Andi, Karata, Akhvakh
5.1.7.5Lezgians, Archin, Kürin; Khinalug
5.2.1.2Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz
5.2.2.1Armenians
5.2.2.2Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.2.2.5Kurds
5.3.2.1Aramaic (Syrians)
5.3.2.3Arabs of Iraq
5.3.2.5Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
5.4.2.10Turkmen
5.4.2.11Luri, Bakhtiari
5.4.2.14Farsiwans
5.4.2.5Baluch
5.4.2.6Pashto
5.4.2.8Uzbek
5.4.3.2Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi
5.4.4.2Dards (Kalash, Kho, Kohistani, Shina, Pashai)
5.6.2.22Dogri
6.1.1.4Bhuiya (now Aryans, originally Munda; Rahman 1955: 203), Baiga, Bhaina, Bhumia (subgroup of Baiga, incl Bharia, formerly Munda, now speak Indo-Aryan languages of neighboring groups)
9.1.2.2Khakas

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: i22g1 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif: k38f3 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 2 Weight: 1000
Motif: l9g Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
Motif: k35a6 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 9 Weight: 778
Motif: k103c Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 9 Weight: 778
Motif: n9 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: k27z7a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: j32b Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 10 Weight: 700
Motif: m38c2 Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 13 Weight: 692
Motif: l108g Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: i140 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: b108 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: k73b7 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: m39a2e Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: k56a4c Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 15 Weight: 667
Motif: l65a2 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 9 Weight: 667
Motif: i82e Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: m114f Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: i92a Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 9 Weight: 667