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f5

Motif

Name_eng:

Brides for the first men

Description:

Person cannot or do not want to give his daughters in marriage to all the men who claim them for wives and transforms animals into girls. (Usually in the beginning of times or after the flood many men come to marry the only daughter of God or patriarch)transforms animals into girls

Name_rus:

Невесты для первых людей

Description_rus:

Персонаж не хочет или не может дать в жены своих дочерей всем претендентам и превращает в девушек различных животных. (Обычно после потопа или в начале времен мужчины хотят жениться на единственной дочери божества или патриарха)

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

05 Origin of human beings, ethnic groups, etiology of human anatomy, strange body configuration, ways of behavior, marriages before the establishment of the present norms

Motif analysis result:

1. Only those Old World motifs that are not found in America besides among the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans.

2. Only those motifs that are found in America (including the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans)

3. Only those motifs that are found in Central and South America

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.2.4.4	Lingala, (Ba)Ngala, Ntomba, Kioque, (Ki)Bangi, Bolia, Balolo, Boloki, (Ba)Akwa, (U)Poto
1.2.5.9	Gogo, Kaguru, Luguru, Zigula, Taveta, Shambala (Šambala), Bondei, Taeta, Dabida; Zaramo
1.3.5.16	Dan (=Gio), Guro (=Kweni, incl Gagu, Neio), Toura, Mano, Ngere, Beng, Guro
1.3.5.7	Kru: Kru proper, Sapo (Sapã), Grebo, Kran (Krahn, Guere-Krahn; incl. Putu, Tchien), Bete, Neyo, Wobe, Devoin (Dey), Belle (Kuwaa), Bassa, Sikon
1.3.5.9	Kpelle (incl Kono)
3.1.3.3	Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
3.5.4.1	Gagauz
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.1.6.1	Ingush
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.2.2.5	Kurds
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
5.5.2.1	Uyghur