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Motif

Name_eng:

Listen in secret of demon

Description:

Person will be ruined if he or she would not find an answer for a riddle of a demon. The answer is found accidentally when the person or somebody else hears how the demon talks by himself or with another demon. See motif C29

Name_rus:

Подслушанный секрет демона

Description_rus:

Человек погибнет, если не найдет ответ на вопрос демона. Человек или его знакомый случайно узнают ответ, слыша, как демон разговаривает сам с собой или с другим демоном. См. мотив C29

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
3.3.1.5	Basques
5.6.2.14	Bengali, Maithili
3.5.2.3	Bosnia Muslims
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
3.3.1.3	Catalan
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.2.1.3	Danes
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
3.3.4.4	England
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.1.6	Faroe Islands
4.2.3.1	Finns
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.3.5.2	Frisians
3.3.5.6	Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
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
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
5.6.2.1	Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
3.3.4.1	Ireland
3.3.2.1	Italians: Northern (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Southern Tirol, Emilia–Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino–Alto Adige)
10.3.2.1	Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
9.1.5.7	Mongols of Inner Mongolia
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
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
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
3.3.4.3	Scotland
4.2.4.3	Setu
3.3.2.2	Sicily
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
4.1.1.3	Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
3.3.1.1	Spain
4.2.1.4	Swedes
3.3.4.2	Wales
4.2.2.1	Western Sami