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Motif

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:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.2.3.3	Mbundu (Umbundu, Kimbundu, Chimbundu, Ovimbundu), Kwanyama, Owambo (=Ambo)
1.2.5.7	Kikuyu, Chuka, Embu, Emberre, Mwimbe
1.2.5.9	Gogo, Kaguru, Luguru, Zigula, Taveta, Shambala (Šambala), Bondei, Taeta, Dabida; Zaramo
1.3.2.2	Biu-Mandara: Margi, Kilba, Bura, Kera, Karekare (Kerri-Kerri), Bachama, Zulgo, Giziga, Hdi, Kapsiki, Mandara (incl Mukulehe, Matakam), Mofu (Mofu-Gudur), Somrai (Sibine, Shibha)
1.3.4.5	Dogon
1.3.4.6	Songhai
1.3.5.13	Soninke
10.2.1.1	Early Chinese written sources
10.2.4.1	Koreans; Goguryeo
12.1.2.7	Beaver
12.2.1.3	Haida
12.2.1.4	Tsimshian
12.3.6.1	Western Sahaptin (Upper Cowlitz, Klikitat, Tenino, Umatilla, Yakima, Wallawalla)
12.3.6.2	Nez Perce
12.4.2.3	Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree, Northern Saulteaux)
12.4.2.4	Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
12.4.2.7	Algonquin, unspecified Algonkians of the Midwest (probably Old Algonquin)
12.4.2.8	Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo
12.4.3.2	Montagnais
12.4.3.3	Naskapi
12.4.3.4	Eastern Swamy Cree
12.4.3.6	Eastern Cree
12.4.3.6	Eastern Cree
12.4.4.1	Plains Cree
12.5.2.2	Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)
13.1.1.1	Blackfoot
13.1.1.2	Sarsee (Tsuu T'ina)
13.1.2.1	Assiniboine
13.1.3.2	Hidatsa
13.1.4.1	Teton (incl Oglala)
13.1.4.3	Santee
13.3.2.1	Tunica
13.3.2.4	Biloxi
15.2.2.1	Warao
2.1.1.1	Malagasy
3.1.1.1	Ancient Egypt
3.1.3.2	Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
3.1.3.4	Western Sahara and Mauritania Arabs; Berbers of Mauritania (Zénaga)
3.2.1.4	Somali
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.3.3.3	Wallons, Picardie
3.3.4.1	Ireland
3.4.1.1	Ancient Greece
3.5.1.5	Byzantine literature
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.1.3.8	Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.2.1.1	Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia)
4.2.1.3	Danes
4.2.1.5	Icelanders
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.1.3.2	Abaza (Abazins)
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
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
5.3.1.1	Old and New Testament
5.3.2.1	Aramaic (Syrians)
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.3.2.5	Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
5.3.3.1	Yemen
5.3.3.3	Soqotri
5.4.1.1	Iranian literary tradition (including Avesta, Pahlevi scripts, Šah-nāmeh, Marzbān-nāmeh); Zoroastrians of Iran, Indian Parsees
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
5.4.2.11	Luri, Bakhtiari
5.4.2.14	Farsiwans
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.4.2.4	Highland Tajik
5.4.2.5	Baluch
5.4.2.7	Bukhara Arabs
5.4.2.8	Uzbek
5.4.3.5	Wakhi, Ishkashimi (including Sanglich), Munji
5.4.4.2	Dards (Kalash, Kho, Kohistani, Shina, Pashai)
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.1.2	Kara Kalpak
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
5.5.2.3	Dungan of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan
5.6.1.1	Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
5.6.2.1	Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
5.6.2.10	Sindhi
5.6.2.14	Bengali, Maithili
5.6.2.17	Sinhalese; Vedda
5.6.2.2	Himachali-Pahari (Western Pahari)
5.6.2.8	Kashmiri
5.6.2.9	Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
5.6.3.3	Kannada, Lingayat, Halakki
5.6.3.4	Tamil, Muthuvan, Marvar
6.1.1.1	Santali, Turi, Mahli
6.1.1.4	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)
6.1.2.3	Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)
6.2.1.1	Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
6.3.2.1	Khmer
6.4.5.3	Bali, Lombok
9.1.4.2	Buryats: Eastern (Trans-Baikal, Mongolia and Inner Mongolia)
9.1.5.3	Mongols (Khalkha)
9.1.5.7	Mongols of Inner Mongolia