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Motif

Name_eng:

Demonic wife recognized

Description:

A man marries a beauty but catches her in a situation when her not human nature is revealed. After this their marriage breaks down

Name_rus:

Жена-оборотень

Description_rus:

Сойдясь с красавицей, мужчина застает ее в положении, когда проявляется ее нечеловеческая природа. После этого брак распадается

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.

4. All motifs of category 1 (cosmology) in sub-Saharan Africa and those motifs of category 2 (adventures) which are found in sub-Saharan Africa and widespread in the Indo-Pacific world with scarce or no cases in Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

ATU ID:

Stith Thompson ID:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
10.2.2.10	Guangdong, Guanxi and Yunnan Chinese
10.2.2.6	Henan and Hubei Chinese
10.2.2.8	Chinese of Qinghai and Gansu provinces and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
10.2.3.4	Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China
10.2.4.1	Koreans; Goguryeo
10.3.2.1	Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu
3.1.3.3	Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
3.2.1.4	Somali
3.3.1.5	Basques
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.3.3.3	Wallons, Picardie
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
3.3.5.4	Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.1.3.3	Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.5.2	Nogai
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.3.2.5	Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
5.4.2.4	Highland Tajik
5.4.2.8	Uzbek
5.4.2.9	Khwarezm Uzbek; Turkic written tradition from Kök Orda
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.1.2	Kara Kalpak
5.5.1.2	Kara Kalpak
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
5.5.2.2	Yugur (Sarïg Yogïr, Yellow Uyghur)
5.5.2.3	Dungan of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan
5.6.2.1	Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
5.6.2.8	Kashmiri
5.6.3.2	Malayali; Kannikaran
6.2.3.3	Chin-Naga: Ao, Mao, Sema, Zeme, Liangmai, Kolren, Kom, Lhota, Rengma, Angami, Kabui, Tangkhul, Koirenf
6.2.3.4	Northern Naga: Konyak (incl. Tangsa), Lungshang, Wancho, Nokte, Moclum, Lunshan, Chang, Maring, Naga of Myanmar
9.1.1.1	Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
9.1.1.3	Northern Altai: Chelkan, Kumanda, Tubalar
9.1.1.4	Siberian Tatars
9.1.3.1	Tuvinians of Tuva
9.1.3.2	Tuvinians of Southern Altai
9.10.1.1	Nanai
9.10.3.1	Manchu
9.2.1.2	Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.2.2.3	Southern Selkups
9.2.2.4	Northern Selkups