k113


Motif

Motif code: 
k113
Name_eng: 
The animal bride
Description: 

Several young men (usually three brothers) decide to choose wives (usually shooting arrows or throwing objects on the off-chance). The wife of the youngest initially is ugly or non-human (a frog, a snake) but proves to be beautiful enchantress. She and her husband triumph. Or girls choose their husbands and the youngest one gets a youth who has guise of a snake

Name_rus: 
Царевна-животное
Description_rus: 
Юноши (обычно трое братьев) находят жен (обычно пустив наудачу стрелы или другие предметы). Жена младшего сперва имеет уродливый облик или является в виде животного (часто лягушки или змеи), но оказывается красавицей и волшебницей. Либо девушки выбирают мужей и муж младшей – змея и т.п.
Motif group: 
Motif analysis result tradition count all: 
74
ATU ID: 
(402)

Linked traditions:
Arabs of Egypt
Western Sahara and Mauritania Arabs; Berbers of Mauritania (Zénaga)
Tunisia Arabs
Ngbakka, Mbum (incl Mbai), Mundang, Fali, Tupuri, Maya (=Bali), Nyong
Tuvalu (Ellice)
Nepali; Tharu
Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
Himachali-Pahari (Western Pahari)
Bhils (incl Barela-Bhilala), Pardhi, Kokna, Parwa
Sinhalese; Vedda
Spain
Portuguese
Catalan
Italians: Northern (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Southern Tirol, Emilia–Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino–Alto Adige)
Sardinia, Corsica
Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
Bretagne
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
Kashubians, Poles of Polish Pomorie
Czech
Slovakians
Greeks (modern)
Bulgarians
Macedonians
Bosnia Muslims
Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
Slovenians
Albanians
Lithuanians
Latvians
Estonians
Finns
Karelians
Western Sami
Norwegians
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
Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi
Yagnobi
Highland Tajik
Abkhaz
Ossetians
Avar, Andi, Akhvakh
Georgians
Armenians
Gagauz
Anatolia Turks
Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
Uyghur
Bashkirs
Mari (Cheremis)
Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)
Oroch
Mustang
Urums, Rumei
Southern Altai: Teleut
Kordofan
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)
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Ukrainians: Northern dialects
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
Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
Dogri

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i87e Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 5 Weight: 1000
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k76d Shared traditions: 12 All traditions: 13 Weight: 923
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k56a5a Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 9 Weight: 889
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m38b2 Shared traditions: 16 All traditions: 18 Weight: 889
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k27z2f Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 9 Weight: 889
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i76b Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 9 Weight: 889
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k80a5 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 8 Weight: 875
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k113a Shared traditions: 41 All traditions: 47 Weight: 872
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m198b1 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
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a32m Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857