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Name_eng:

Three maidens

Description:

Powerful person listens in conversation of three (rare: two or four) women. Each of them tells what she would do if the person marries her. One promises to bear his son (children) who would have wonderful qualities, two others promise to practice some kind of work or (more rare) marry people of lower status

Name_rus:

Три девицы

Description_rus:

Персонаж высокого статуса встречает трех (реже двух или четырех) женщин. Одна (обещает родить и) рожает ему сына (детей), обладающего необычными свойствами, другие (обещают заняться и) занимаются ремеслом или хозяйством либо (реже) собираются выйти замуж за людей менее высокого статуса

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:

128

Areal ID	Tradition
1.2.6.3	Fang (Pangwe), Eton, Bafia, Batanga, Benga, Bube (Bubi), Buheba, Yaunde (Ewondo), Yebekolo, Koko, Bulu, Beti (Beti-Bulu), Sekiani, Eghap
1.3.2.1	Hausa
1.3.3.3	Krache (Kraci); Ga; Adele
1.4.3.7	Iraku (Irakw)
10.2.4.1	Koreans; Goguryeo
11.1.1.1	Forest (Upper Kolyma) Yukaghir (Oduls)
2.1.1.1	Malagasy
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
3.1.3.2	Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
3.1.3.5	Morocco Arabs
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs
3.1.3.7	Tunisia Arabs
3.2.1.2	Saho, Afar
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.1.4	Aragon
3.3.1.5	Basques
3.3.2.10	Sardinia
3.3.2.11	Italians (Calabria)
3.3.2.2	Sicily
3.3.2.3	Corsica
3.3.2.5	Maltese
3.3.2.6	Italians: Central (Toscana, Maremma, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia)
3.3.2.8	Italians: Northeast (Trentino – Alto Adige, Veneto, Venezia Giulia, Southern Tirol, Friuli)
3.3.3.1	Bretagne
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
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
3.3.4.1	Ireland
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
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
3.5.2.1	Albanians
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.2.3	Bosnia Muslims
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
3.5.3.3	Transylvanian Saksons
3.5.4.1	Gagauz
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.1.3.1	Russians: Central part of Russian ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500: Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, eastern part of Smolensk provinces (most of Smolensk province is Belorussian ethnic territory)
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.1.3.3	Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
4.1.3.4	Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
4.1.3.5	Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
4.1.3.6	Russians: Southern part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Belgorod, Voronezh, Tambov, Penza, Lipetsk, Orel, Kursk, Bryansk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Samara, Simbirsk and Saratov provinces)
4.1.3.7	Russian Pomors ("seasiders"): Lower Pechora
4.1.3.8	Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.2.1.5	Icelanders
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.3.3	Vepsians
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.2.4.5	Lutsi (Ludza)
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
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
5.1.5.2	Nogai
5.1.5.3	Kumyk, Terekemen
5.1.6.1	Ingush
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Karata, Akhvakh
5.1.7.3	Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi
5.1.7.4	Laks
5.1.7.5	Lezgians, Archin, Kürin; Khinalug
5.1.7.8	Udin
5.1.8.1	Terek Cossacks
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.1.2	Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz
5.2.1.3	Svans
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.2.2.5	Kurds
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.3.2.3	Arabs of Iraq
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
5.4.2.13	Parya of Gissar (Hisor) Valley (Tajikistan)
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.4.2.7	Bukhara Arabs
5.4.2.8	Uzbek
5.4.3.2	Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.1.2	Kara Kalpak
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
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
5.6.2.16	Konkani (including local component in Goa folklore)
5.6.2.18	Oriya (incl. Dom/Domba/Dombo, Ghasi, Bhat and other Oriya-speaking castes of Odisha)
5.6.2.22	Dogri
6.2.1.1	Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
6.2.2.1	Lepcha
6.4.8.4	Timor: Amarasi, Tetum, Meto, Atoni (incl Mollo), Kédang (Lomblen island), Leti Islands (Leti, Moa, Lakor)
6.4.8.9	Sangir Islands
9.1.1.1	Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
9.1.3.1	Tuvinians of Tuva
9.1.3.2	Tuvinians of Southern Altai
9.1.3.3	Tofa (Karagas)
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
9.1.4.2	Buryats: Eastern (Trans-Baikal, Mongolia and Inner Mongolia)
9.1.5.2	Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)
9.1.5.3	Mongols (Khalkha)
9.1.5.4	Daur (Daghur)
9.2.1.2	Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.2.1.3	Northern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.2.1.4	Southern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.3.2.3	Baikal RegionTungus/Evenki
9.3.2.5	Yerbogachen Tungus/Evenki