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K81A - Bezrucha in the prince's garden.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
A girl with severed hands comes to a fruit tree (garden) to find food. Seeing her there, the prince takes her as his wife.Berezkin category: Adventures: Acts of heroes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
K81 has 1 other sub-motifsK81. For a minor offence or on false charges, a young woman is maimed and expelled from her home (rarely: she is killed or maims herself). The cripple miraculously recovers (the dead woman is resurrected). K81a. A girl with severed hands comes to a fruit tree (garden) to find food. Seeing her there, the prince takes her as his wife. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of K81's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| K27G4 | 99.65% | The character must complete all field work in an unimaginably short time and present the products of the new harvest. |
| K56A4C | 99.61% | A person is tasked with washing something black until it is white or something white until it is black (yarn, clothing, a board, etc.). |
| K56A6 | 99.57% | On the way to another world, people or objects ask a child (girl) to taste the food they offer or to do some work. The child (girl) does everything (rarely does not do) and therefore achieves the goal. |
| K107D1 | 99.45% | Waiting for his magical wife, the young man falls asleep. The wife cannot wake him up and leaves (this episode is often repeated). |
| M26A | 99.44% | The character catches birds by feeding them bait tied to a rope, which they swallow one by one, or by shooting several birds with one bullet, or by soldering birds drunk and tying up. Birds usually take off and carry away a catcher holding a rope. |
| B102A | 99.40% | Clouds are associated with horned cattle, especially cows (and rain is their milk). |
| M136B | 99.34% | A man cuts the branch he is sitting on and similar variants (cuts the rope he climbed up on; climbs onto a dry branch that breaks; climbs onto a tree that has been cut down in order to fell it). |
| M90A5 | 99.33% | The story mentions the golden fruits (rarely leaves) of a tree, usually golden apples. |
| L100F1 | 99.30% | A worker (the young son of the master) arranges things so that the food prepared by the mistress for her lover, who is working in the field, goes to the master, and when the master goes to the man, not knowing that he is his wife's lover, the man thinks that the husband is coming to kill him and flees. |
| M199I | 99.30% | A man and a giant (devil, bear, etc.) compete to see who can make the loudest sound (whistle, shout, sneeze, etc.). The man blindfolds his opponent and hits him with a heavy object; blows a trumpet; wraps his head so that it does not burst; etc. The opponent admits defeat or refuses to compete. |
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This motif has been recorded in 13 traditions: Koreans, France, Germans: North (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg, Pommern, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen, Brandenburg, Rügen, Slovakians, Slovaks, Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians, Moldovans, Lithuanians, Latvians, Setu, Byelarusians, Belarusians, Russians: Central part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, Smolensk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Vyatka, Perm, Kazan provinces), Uzbek, Crimean Tatars, Karaims, Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)