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Motif

Name_eng:

Sickle as an unknown beast

Description:

Grain is harvested with inappropriate tools. Seeing sickle for the first time, people take it for a dangerous animal

Name_rus:

Неведомый серп

Description_rus:

Некие люди не знают, что делать с режущими орудиями, пытаются использовать вместо них орудия, которые не подходят для данных целей

Motif type:

Adventures and tricks

Motif group:

11 Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior

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:

Stith Thompson ID:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.3.1.4	Aragon
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.2.2.1	Armenians
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
3.3.1.3	Catalan
6.2.1.1	Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
4.1.1.4	Czech
5.4.4.2	Dards (Kalash, Kho, Kohistani, Shina, Pashai)
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.3.1	Finns
3.3.1.6	Galicians
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
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
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
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)
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
4.1.1.1	Poles
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
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)
4.1.3.6	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)
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.1	Spain
4.2.1.4	Swedes
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
3.3.3.4	Upper Brittany
3.3.3.3	Wallons, Picardie
4.2.2.1	Western Sami