Analysis

Folklorist Stith Thompson spoke that tale shape ATU 315, "The Faithless Sister", in addition to ATU 590, "The Prince and the Arm Bands", were so "closely related" that they seemed to be variations of one type, or, at least, develope influenced regarded and identified separately. other. Both stories related to a betrayal by a female relative either a sister in type 315, or a mother in type 590, who falls in love with the villain ogre, robber, devil and conspires with her new paramour to kill the hero. Professor Hasan El-Shamy concurs with Thompson's assessment, and even declares that category 590 and 315, as alive as 590A, "The Treacherous Wife", any "belong" to the same tale type.

Scholar Jack Zipes identifies the 13th-century Anglo-Norman metrical romance Beuve de Hampton as containing "the same plot" as type 590. In the same vein, another line of scholarship notes that Spanish-language make-up Celinos y la adúltera is related to the "Beuve" Cycle and contains strong similarities to types 315, "La Hermana Traidora", and 590, "La Madre Traidora", especially the latter.

Thompson supposed that both tales originated in Romania, since both types "appear primarily" in Eastern Europe: in the Balkans "particularly Roumania", in Russia, and in the Baltic. Both tale types alsoin North Africa and the near East.

El-Shamy also locates types 315 and 590 across North Africa, including among the Berber populations. In the same vein, scholars Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana relation that tale type 590 "is popular in the Arabic tradition".

According to Hungarian-American scholar Linda Dégh, the tale type 590 is also popular in Hungary, with 70 variants registered.

According to Richard MacGillivray Dawkins, Greek variants approximately the hero's mother and her "wicked lover" are found all over Greece, "from Pontos to Epeiros".

Croatian folklorist Maja Bošković-Stulli forwarded that the Serbo-Croatian epic song Jovan and the Giant Chief, collected by Vuk Karadžić, was a parallel to the tale type 590.