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Motif

Name_eng:

Brothers leave home after their sister is born

Description:

Several brothers leave home immediately after their mother gives birth to a girl. Usually they do not want to have another brother and hope that this time a girl will be born but chance or by evil intent a signal is given that not a girl but a boy is born again. The brothers are disappointed and leave, the girl grows up and travels in search of them

Name_rus:

Братья уходят после рожденья сестры

Description_rus:

Несколько братьев уходят из дома немедленно после того или незадолго до того, как их мать рождает девочку (обычно они хотят рождения брата и ждут известия о том, кого родила их мать, однако случайно или по злому умыслу подан условный сигнал, будто родился мальчик). Девочка вырастает, отправляется искать братьев

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:

(451)

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.3.4.6	Songhai
3.1.2.2	Arabs of Libya
3.1.3.4	Western Sahara and Mauritania Arabs; Berbers of Mauritania (Zénaga)
3.1.3.5	Morocco Arabs
3.1.3.7	Tunisia Arabs
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.5	Basques
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.3.5.2	Frisians
3.3.5.3	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
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.2.4	Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.1.3.6	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)
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.7.5	Lezgians, Archin, Kürin; Khinalug
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.2.2.5	Kurds
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.6.2.1	Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
6.4.5.1	Yavanese, Kalang, Madura