k127


Motif

Name_eng: 
Brothers transformed into animals
Description: 

A girl has many (more than three) brothers, they turn into birds or animals (rare: into plants; killed by magic), ultimately become human again

Name_rus: 
Братья-животные
Description_rus: 
У девушки много братьев, они превращены в птиц или животных (редко: в растения; умерщвлены колдовством), затем обычно расколдованы (оживлены; обычно – все, в грузинском варианте – один)
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: 
69
ATU ID: 
451

Linked traditions:
Areal IDTradition
1.4.1.1Nubians
1.4.1.2Arabs of Sudan
10.3.2.2Northern Ryukyu Islands (with southern Kyusyu in case of absence across the rest of Japan
3.1.2.1Arabs of Egypt
3.1.2.2Arabs of Libya
3.1.3.2Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
3.1.3.5Morocco Arabs
3.1.3.7Tunisia Arabs
3.3.1.1Spain
3.3.1.2Portuguese
3.3.1.3Catalan
3.3.1.5Basques
3.3.2.1Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)
3.3.2.3Sardinia, Corsica
3.3.2.5Maltese
3.3.2.6Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
3.3.2.7Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.3.2.8Italians: Northeast (Trentino – Alto Adige, Veneto, Venezia Giulia, Southern Tirol, Friuli, Istria)
3.3.3.2French (northern France)
3.3.4.1Ireland
3.3.4.3Scotland
3.3.5.1Dutch, Flemish
3.3.5.2Frisians
3.3.5.3Germans: 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
3.3.5.4Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
3.3.5.5Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.3.5.6Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
3.3.5.7Eastern Prussia
3.5.1.1Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2Bulgarians
3.5.2.4Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
3.5.2.5Slovenians
3.5.3.1Hungarians
3.5.3.2Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.1.1Poles
4.1.1.3Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
4.1.1.4Czech
4.1.1.5Slovakians
4.1.2.1Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.5Byelarusians
4.1.3.2Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.1.3.6Russians: 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)
4.2.1.2Norwegians
4.2.1.3Danes
4.2.1.4Swedes
4.2.1.5Icelanders
4.2.1.6Faroe Islands
4.2.2.1Western Sami
4.2.3.1Finns
4.2.4.4Livonians
4.2.4.5Lutsi (Ludza)
4.2.5.1Latvians
4.2.5.2Lithuanians
4.3.2.1Mari (Cheremis)
5.2.1.1Georgians
5.2.2.1Armenians
5.2.2.3Anatolia Turks
5.3.2.2Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.3.2.3Arabs of Iraq
5.3.2.6Arabs of Kuwait, Bahrein, Qatar, Emirates, Oman,
5.3.3.1Yemen
5.4.2.10Turkmen
5.4.2.3Tajik
5.6.2.1Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
5.6.2.12Marathi (incl. Bhamta; incl. Mumbai area)
5.6.2.9Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
6.3.1.3Shan
6.4.5.1Yavanese, Kalang, Madura

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Motif: j25a1 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: k38b3c Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 5 Weight: 1000
Motif: m199d1 Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 8 Weight: 1000
Motif: k113b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: k127b Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 7 Weight: 1000
Motif: k56a5c Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 8 Weight: 1000
Motif: k127a Shared traditions: 23 All traditions: 23 Weight: 1000
Motif: k27z2f Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 9 Weight: 1000
Motif: j51a2 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 6 Weight: 1000
Motif: m39a2d Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 5 Weight: 1000
Motif: m197f Shared traditions: 12 All traditions: 13 Weight: 923
Motif: k76d Shared traditions: 12 All traditions: 13 Weight: 923
Motif: k117c1 Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 12 Weight: 917
Motif: b115a Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 11 Weight: 909
Motif: m199c1 Shared traditions: 17 All traditions: 19 Weight: 895
Motif: b104a Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 9 Weight: 889
Motif: k56a5a Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 9 Weight: 889
Motif: h52b Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 9 Weight: 889
Motif: m164a Shared traditions: 15 All traditions: 17 Weight: 882