n38

Motif

Name_eng:

Which key is better

Description:

Person asks which object (usually a key) is better: the old one (that was lost and found) or the new one. By this the marriage partner is meant (rarely this question is asked directly)

Name_rus:

Какой ключ лучше

Description_rus:

Персонаж спрашивает окружающих, какой предмет (обычно ключ) лучше – старый (потерянный и найденный) или же новый. Имеется в виду забытый и вновь обретенный брачный партнер (реже об этом задается прямой вопрос)

Motif type:

Adventures and tricks

Motif group:

13 Formulae

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
10.2.4.1	Koreans; Goguryeo
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.1.6	Galicians
3.3.3.1	Bretagne
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.3.3.3	Wallons, Picardie
3.3.3.4	Upper Brittany
3.3.3.5	Occitanie (southern France): Limousin, Auvergne, Provence, Aquitaine, Albret, Gers, Aveyron (Rouerge), Armagnac, Landes, Gascogne, Vivarés, Roussillon, Pyrénées, Bearne, Guyenne, Bigorre, Ain, Hautes Alpes, Ariège, Vienne, Aude, French part of Swiss
3.3.5.3	Germans: Northwest (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl. East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen
3.3.5.4	Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.3.5.7	Eastern Prussia
3.5.2.4	Croatians
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.2.1.3	Danes
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.4.4	Livonians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks