f70


Motif

Motif code: 
f70
Name_eng: 
Potiphar's wife: false accusation of sexual abuse
Description: 

Woman makes vain overtures to young man and/or falsely accuses him of sexual abuse. Her husband believes that the young man is guilty, kills or tries to kill him

Name_rus: 
Жена Потифара
Description_rus: 
Женщина ложно обвиняет мужчину в посягательстве на нее
Motif type: 
Adventures and tricks
Motif group: 
10 Adventures
Motif analysis result: 
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
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: 
106
ATU ID: 
Stith Thompson ID: 
K2111, T418

Linked traditions:
Ancient Egypt
Old and New Testament
Aramaic (Syrians)
Yemen
Soqotri
Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
Western Sahara and Mauritania Arabs; Berbers of Mauritania (Zénaga)
Malagasy
Somali
Kikuyu, Chuka, Embu, Emberre, Mwimbe
Gogo, Kaguru, Luguru, Zigula, Taveta, Shambala (Šambala), Bondei, Taeta, Dabida; Zaramo
Mbundu (Umbundu, Kimbundu, Chimbundu, Ovimbundu), Kwanyama, Owambo (=Ambo)
Biu-Mandara: Margi, Kilba, Bura, Kera, Karekare (Kerri-Kerri), Bachama, Zulgo, Giziga, Hdi, Kapsiki, Mandara (incl Mukulehe, Matakam), Mofu (Mofu-Gudur), Somrai (Sibine, Shibha)
Soninke
Songhai
Dogon
Bali, Lombok
Khmer
Santali, Turi, Mahli
Bhuiya (now Aryans, originally Munda; Rahman 1955: 203), Baiga, Bhaina, Bhumia (subgroup of Baiga, incl Bharia, formerly Munda, now speak Indo-Aryan languages of neighboring groups)
Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)
Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
Kannada, Lingayat, Halakki
Tamil, Muthuvan, Marvar
Bengali, Maithili
Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
Sindhi
Kashmiri
Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
Himachali-Pahari (Western Pahari)
Sinhalese; Vedda
Dards (Kalash, Kho, Kohistani, Shina, Pashai)
Early Chinese written sources
Koreans; Goguryeo
Ireland
Spain
Catalan
French (northern France)
Hungarians
Ancient Greece
Lithuanians
Danes
Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia)
Uzbek
Wakhi, Ishkashimi (including Sanglich), Munji
Highland Tajik
Tajik
Baluch
Persians
Bukhara Arabs
Iranian literary tradition (including Avesta, Pahlevi scripts, Šah-nāmeh, Marzbān-nāmeh); Zoroastrians of Iran, Indian Parsees
Abaza (Abazins)
Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
Georgians
Armenians
Crimea Tatars, Karaims
Anatolia Turks
Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
Kurds
Kara Kalpak
Kazakh
Kirghiz
Dungan of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan
Turkmen
Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
Bashkirs
Mongols (Khalkha)
Beaver
Haida
Tsimshian
Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
Algonquin, unspecified Algonkians of the Midwest (probably Old Algonquin)
Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree, Northern Saulteaux)
Eastern Swamy Cree
Eastern Cree
Eastern Cree
Naskapi
Montagnais
Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo
Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)
Blackfoot
Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina)
Teton (incl Oglala)
Santee
Plains Cree
Assiniboine
Hidatsa
Western Sahaptin (Upper Cowlitz, Klikitat, Tenino, Umatilla, Yakima, Wallawalla)
Nez Perce
Tunica
Warao
Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
Biloxi
Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
Luri, Bakhtiari
Mongols of Inner Mongolia
Wallons, Picardie
Icelanders
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
Farsiwans
Buryats: Eastern (trans Baikal), i.e. Khori
Rusyns, Hutsuls
Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
Byzantine literature

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: k61f Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 6 Weight: 1000
Motif: b32a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 2 Weight: 1000
Motif: j25a1 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: k27z2 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif: m39a2e Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: k38f3 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 2 Weight: 1000
Motif: m39a4d Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif: l40c Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: i140 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: k99a2 Shared traditions: 16 All traditions: 17 Weight: 941
Motif: f70a Shared traditions: 63 All traditions: 67 Weight: 940
Motif: f70b Shared traditions: 75 All traditions: 82 Weight: 915
Motif: k15 Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 9 Weight: 889
Motif: l125a Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 8 Weight: 875
Motif: i13e Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
Motif: k27z2a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: m195b Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: m114f Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: k123b Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833