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Motif

Name_eng:

Sword of chastity

Description:

Sleeping in one bed with a woman, man puts a sharp or thorny object between them as a sign of chastity (sometimes the woman herself puts the sword)

Name_rus:

Меч на брачной постели

Description_rus:

Ложась с женщиной, мужчина кладет между ней и собой острый или колючий предмет в знак того, что ночью он будет соблюдать воздержание (иногда меч кладет сама женщина)

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:

Stith Thompson ID:

T351

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
5.3.2.5	Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
5.3.2.3	Arabs of Iraq
5.3.2.1	Aramaic (Syrians)
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Akhvakh
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.4.2.5	Baluch
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
6.1.1.4	Bhuiya (now Aryans, originally Munda; Rahman 1955: 203), Baiga, Bhaina, Bhumia (subgroup of Baiga, incl Bharia, formerly Munda, now speak Indo-Aryan languages of neighboring groups)
3.3.3.1	Bretagne
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.3.1.3	Catalan
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
4.2.1.3	Danes
5.4.4.2	Dards (Kalash, Kho, Kohistani, Shina, Pashai)
5.6.2.22	Dogri
5.4.2.14	Farsiwans
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
4.2.1.5	Icelanders
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)
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
9.1.2.2	Khakas
1.4.1.3	Kordofan
5.2.2.5	Kurds
4.2.5.1	Latvians
5.1.7.5	Lezgians, Archin, Kürin; Khinalug
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
5.4.2.11	Luri, Bakhtiari
2.1.1.1	Malagasy
5.2.1.2	Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
1.4.4.5	Ngbakka, Mbum (incl Mbai), Mundang, Fali, Tupuri, Maya (=Bali), Nyong
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
1.4.1.1	Nubians
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
5.4.2.6	Pashto
4.1.1.1	Poles
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.2.4	Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
5.4.3.2	Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi
4.2.1.1	Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia)
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
3.3.1.1	Spain
4.2.1.4	Swedes
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
3.3.3.4	Upper Brittany
5.4.2.8	Uzbek