m171a

Motif

Name_eng:

The profitable exchange: getting a girl

Description:

Person or animal gets to exchange less valuable goods for ever more valuable. The last or the next to last one is a girl

Name_rus:

Мена: получает девушку

Description_rus:

Персонаж (часто зооморфный) получает девушку (юношу), последовательно выменивая меньшие ценности на большие

Motif type:

Adventures and tricks

Motif group:

11 Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior

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:

1655

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.2.6.3	Fang (Pangwe), Eton, Bafia, Batanga, Benga, Bube (Bubi), Buheba, Yaunde (Ewondo), Yebekolo, Koko, Bulu, Beti (Beti-Bulu), Sekiani, Eghap
1.3.1.2	Tiv, Bamum (Bamun), Mungaka (Mgaka, Bali), Beba, Anaguta, Bete (Mbete, Karang), Ekoi, Nyang, Vute (Wute), Jukun, Chamba, Bamileke, Kwotto, Kirri; Denya (Nyang)
1.3.2.1	Hausa
1.3.3.3	Krache (Kraci); Ga; Adele
1.3.3.5	Ewe
1.3.5.16	Dan (=Gio), Guro (=Kweni, incl Gagu, Neio), Toura, Mano, Ngere, Beng, Guro
1.4.5.2	Sara, incl. Ngambaye (Ngambaï), Mbaï
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
3.1.2.2	Arabs of Libya
3.1.3.2	Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.1.4	Aragon
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)
3.3.3.1	Bretagne
3.3.3.3	Wallons, Picardie
3.3.3.4	Upper Brittany
3.3.4.1	Ireland
3.3.4.3	Scotland
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)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.2.1	Albanians
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.3.3	Vepsians
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.1.3.2	Abaza (Abazins)
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.1.5.2	Nogai
5.1.7.3	Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi
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
5.3.2.1	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
5.3.2.6	Arabs of Kuwait, Bahrein, Qatar, Emirates, Oman,
5.3.3.1	Yemen
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.3.4	Sarikoli
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.1.2	Kara Kalpak
5.5.2.1	Uyghur
5.6.2.1	Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
5.6.2.13	Rajasthani (Radjasthan and Madhya Pradesh)
5.6.2.14	Bengali, Maithili
5.6.2.2	Himachali-Pahari (Western Pahari)
5.6.2.7	Nepali; Tharu
6.1.2.3	Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)
6.1.2.5	Maria, Muria, and other South-Central Dravidians: Binjhwar, Baсор, Bhattra, Bom, Jhoria (=Jhodia), Gadaba (in Koraput, neighbors of Munda-speaking Gadaba), Duruwa (Parji), Mehtar; Pardhan
6.2.3.1	Eastern Arunachal Pradesh: Abor (incl Minyong, Shimong, Padam, Pasi, Panggi), Apa Tani (Apatani), Bori, Bugun, Dafla (=Nyishi, Nisi, Nishing, incl Tagin), Gallong (=Galo, Adi), Mishmi
6.3.1.9	Khamti, Ahom
9.1.5.4	Daur (Daghur)
9.1.5.7	Mongols of Inner Mongolia
9.10.1.1	Nanai
9.3.1.4	Northwestern Yakuts (Sakha): Yessey, Anabar, Olenyok and Lower Lena Basins
9.3.1.5	Northeastern Yakuts (Sakha): Yana, Indigirka and Kolyma Basins