k117


Motif

Motif code: 
k117
Name_eng: 
Woman who never laughs (a bride)
Description: 

A woman should marry a man who would be able to make her laugh; a man promises a reward to the person who make laugh his wife or mother

Name_rus: 
Несмеяна (невеста)
Description_rus: 
Женщина выйдет за того, кто ее рассмешит; мужчина обещает награду тому, кто рассмешит его дочь или мать
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: 
57
ATU ID: 
559, 571

Linked traditions:
Arabs of Egypt
Comoros Islands
Nubians
Zaghawa
Ireland
England
Scotland
Spain
Portuguese
Basques
Aragon
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)
Bulgarians
Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Lithuanians
Latvians
Estonians
Setu
Finns
Karelians
Norwegians
Danes
Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia)
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)
Highland Tajik
Kalmyk
Gagauz
Anatolia Turks
Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
Mari (Cheremis)
Mordvins
Chuvash
Northern Selkups
Central Yakuts (Sakha)
Galicians
Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
Frisians
Upper Brittany
Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
Eastern Prussia

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: k27f3 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif: c32 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: m38d5 Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 9 Weight: 1000
Motif: n28f Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif: l108g Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: m38d4 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif: k56a5a Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 9 Weight: 1000
Motif: k85a Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 9 Weight: 889
Motif: k103c Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 9 Weight: 889
Motif: m198b1 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
Motif: k27g2 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
Motif: m112b Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 13 Weight: 846
Motif: m197f Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 13 Weight: 846
Motif: k37b Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 12 Weight: 833
Motif: m199m Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: j51a2 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: l72e1 Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 12 Weight: 833
Motif: b115a Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 11 Weight: 818
Motif: i59b2 Shared traditions: 16 All traditions: 20 Weight: 800