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Motif

Name_eng:

Helpful mouse rings a bell

Description:

Using a bell (drum, etc.) an animal (usually a mouse) produces sounds which the antagonist who is blind or is outdoors takes for the sounds produced by the hero (heroine). Thanks to this the hero escapes

Name_rus:

Мышка-помощница звенит в колокольчик

Description_rus:

Когда небольшое животное (обычно мышь) звенит в колокольчик, стучит по барабану и т.п., слепой или находящийся поодаль антагонист полагает, что эти звуки производит герой (героиня). Благодаря этому герой (героиня) спасается

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
5.1.3.2	Abaza (Abazins)
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.4.2.5	Baluch
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
3.1.3.3	Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
9.3.1.1	Central Yakuts (Sakha)
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.4.4.2	Dards (Kalash, Kho, Kohistani, Shina, Pashai)
5.1.7.3	Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.3.1	Finns
3.5.4.1	Gagauz
5.2.1.1	Georgians
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
5.5.2.6	Hui of Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Qinghai (rare Hui texts from Southern and Eastern China are clustered with the Chinese ones)
10.3.2.1	Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
4.2.3.2	Karelians
6.2.2.2	Kirati (Kiranti): Rai (incl Thulung), Limbu, Newar
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
9.2.1.1	Mansi
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.1.3.1	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)
4.1.3.4	Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
4.1.3.8	Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
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)
4.2.4.3	Setu
5.1.5.1	Stavropol Turkmen (recent migrants from Mangyshlak Peninsular)
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.1.8.1	Terek Cossacks
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
5.5.2.1	Uyghur
4.2.3.3	Vepsians
4.2.4.1	Votians