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Motif

Name_eng:

The quest for a strong adversary

Description:

A man seeks a strong adversary to wrestle with and comes across person who is incomparably stronger than he

Name_rus:

Хвастун встречает сильнейшего

Description_rus:

Когда персонаж хвастается силой, жена или мать замечает, что есть посильнее его. Он отправляется на поиски и встречает персонажа, намного превосходящего его силой

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.

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

ATU ID:

650B

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.3.2.1	Hausa
1.3.4.2	Northern Gur (Oti-Volta): Mamprussi, Dagomba, Dagari (Dagara; incl Lodaga), Bassari, Mosi, Nankanse, Konkomba, Moba; Ditammari, Nyende, Bulsa (pl Builsa, Bulo)
1.3.4.6	Songhai
1.3.5.2	Mandjak, Mankanya, Pepel, Balant, Felupe, Diola (Jola)
1.4.1.2	Arabs of Sudan
1.4.5.3	Zaghawa
3.3.1.3	Catalan
4.1.3.7	Russian Pomors ("seasiders"): Lower Pechora
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.1.3.2	Abaza (Abazins)
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.1.5.3	Kumyk, Terekemen
5.1.6.1	Ingush
5.1.6.2	Chechens
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Karata, Akhvakh
5.1.7.4	Laks
5.2.1.2	Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
5.6.2.19	Kumaoni (Central Pahari), incl. Garhwali
5.6.2.2	Himachali-Pahari (Western Pahari)
5.6.2.7	Nepali; Tharu
5.6.2.9	Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
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
6.2.2.6	Dhimal
6.3.1.9	Khamti, Ahom