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Motif

Name_eng:

Old woman’s curse

Description:

A youth or (rare) girl offends an elder woman. Her words make him or her to be overcome by desire to undertake something dangerous (usually to get a particular marriage partner)

Name_rus:

Проклятье старухи

Description_rus:

Мальчик, юноша, реже девушка намеренно или случайно обижает пожилую женщину. Она произносит слова, из-за которых у него или у нее возникло желание предпринять нечто опасное (чаще всего найти брачного партнера)

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.4.1.3	Kordofan
10.2.4.1	Koreans; Goguryeo
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
3.1.3.2	Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
3.1.3.3	Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs
3.1.3.7	Tunisia Arabs
3.3.2.1	Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)
3.3.2.2	Sicily
3.3.2.3	Sardinia, Corsica
3.3.2.5	Maltese
3.3.2.6	Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.3.2.8	Italians: Northeast (Trentino – Alto Adige, Veneto, Venezia Giulia, Southern Tirol, Friuli, Istria)
3.3.3.1	Bretagne
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
3.5.4.1	Gagauz
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.1.3.3	Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
4.1.3.5	Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
4.1.3.8	Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.1.2.2	Urums, Rumei
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.1.5.2	Nogai
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Karata, Akhvakh
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.1.2	Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.3.2.1	Aramaic (Syrians)
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.3.2.3	Arabs of Iraq
5.3.2.4	Saudi Arabia
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.4.2.7	Bukhara Arabs
5.4.2.8	Uzbek
5.4.4.2	Dards (Kalash, Kho, Kohistani, Shina, Pashai)
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.1.2	Kara Kalpak
5.5.2.1	Uyghur
5.6.3.3	Kannada, Lingayat, Halakki
5.6.3.4	Tamil, Muthuvan, Marvar
6.1.1.3	Northern Munda of Kharwar branch: Birhor, Ho, Mundari, Kol, Asur (including Agaria, Kol, Birjhia), Bhumij
6.1.2.1	Oraon (Kurukh)
6.1.2.1	Oraon (Kurukh)
6.2.1.1	Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
9.1.3.2	Tuvinians of Southern Altai