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Motif

Name_eng:

To get know a secret

Description:

To get know the precise number of certain units, to select certain object among many others, to get know a name of particular person or a reason of particular phenomenon, person tries to surprise (or unintentionally surprises) the possessor of the knowledge who becomes to speak aloud and so provides the hero with necessary information

Name_rus:

Узнать секрет

Description_rus:

Чтобы узнать точное число, определенный объект в некотором множестве, имя определенного персонажа или причину некоего явления, персонаж старается удивить (или ненамеренно удивляет) обладателя подобного знания. Тот начинает говорить сам с собой, невольно сообщая находящемуся неподалеку герою нужную информацию

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:

ATU ID:

500*

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.4.1.1	Ancient Greece
3.3.1.5	Basques
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
9.1.5.1	Darkhad
1.2.6.1	Duala (Douala), Basa (Basaá), Kwiri (Kweli), Isubu
1.3.3.4	Fon
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)
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
9.1.2.2	Khakas
1.3.3.3	Krache (Kraci); Ga; Adele
5.1.5.3	Kumyk, Terekemen
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
1.2.2.5	Malawi (incl Nyanja, Banyanja, Manganja), Tumbuka (incl Henga), Nsenga, Matengo, (Ba)Wenda
5.1.5.2	Nogai
9.1.1.3	Northern Altai: Chelkan, Kumanda, Tubalar
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
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
4.1.1.1	Poles
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
3.3.4.3	Scotland
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.3.2.2	Sicily
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
9.1.3.3	Tofa (Karagas)
9.1.3.2	Tuvinians of Southern Altai
9.1.3.1	Tuvinians of Tuva
3.3.3.3	Wallons, Picardie