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Motif

Name_eng:

To identify the night thief

Description:

Some valuables (foals, hay, apples, etc.) are regularly stolen. Nobody (the elder brothers) is able to catch the thief and only the hero (the younger brother) finds who it is

Name_rus:

Братья стерегут ночного вора

Description_rus:

Кто-то регулярно крадет животных (коня, овцу и пр.) или урожай (яблоки, сено, горох, цветы и пр.). Взявшиеся стеречь (обычно старшие братья) упускают похитителя и лишь герой (обычно младший брат) его обнаруживает

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:

112

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.2.5.12	Swahili, Midjikenda (incl Giryama), Nyika, Duruma; Ngindo, Kiluguru and other Islamic groups of the Eastern Coast of Africa
1.4.1.2	Arabs of Sudan
1.4.1.3	Kordofan
3.1.3.2	Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
3.1.3.3	Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
3.1.3.4	Western Sahara and Mauritania Arabs; Berbers of Mauritania (Zénaga)
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.1.5	Basques
3.3.1.6	Galicians
3.3.2.2	Sicily
3.3.2.3	Sardinia, Corsica
3.3.2.4	Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
3.3.2.5	Maltese
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.3.3.3	Wallons, Picardie
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
3.3.4.1	Ireland
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
3.3.5.4	Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.3.5.6	Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
3.3.5.7	Eastern Prussia
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
3.5.2.1	Albanians
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.2.3	Bosnia Muslims
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
3.5.4.1	Gagauz
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.1.3	Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.3	Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
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)
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.1.3.4	Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
4.1.3.5	Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
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)
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.2.1.3	Danes
4.2.2.1	Western Sami
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.2.4.4	Livonians
4.2.4.5	Lutsi (Ludza)
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.1.3.2	Abaza (Abazins)
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.1.5.2	Nogai
5.1.6.1	Ingush
5.1.6.1	Ingush
5.1.6.2	Chechens
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Karata, Akhvakh
5.1.7.4	Laks
5.1.7.9	Tats
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.1.3	Svans
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.2.2.5	Kurds
5.2.2.6	Zaza (western Kurds)
5.3.2.1	Aramaic (Syrians)
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.3.2.3	Arabs of Iraq
5.3.3.2	Mehri; Harsusi, Jibbali (Shahri, Shauri), Hobyot
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
5.4.2.13	Parya of Gissar (Hisor) Valley (Tajikistan)
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.4.2.8	Uzbek
5.4.3.1	Yagnobi
5.4.3.5	Wakhi, Ishkashimi (including Sanglich), Munji
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.1.2	Kara Kalpak
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
5.6.2.1	Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
5.6.3.4	Tamil, Muthuvan, Marvar
6.1.1.1	Santali, Turi, Mahli
6.1.1.3	Northern Munda of Kharwar branch: Birhor, Ho, Mundari, Kol, Asur (including Agaria, Kol, Birjhia), Bhumij
6.3.1.3	Shan
6.3.1.7	Arakan, Chakma, Khyang
6.4.8.10	Northern Halmahera Papuans: Galela, Loda, Pagu, Modole, Tabaru (Tobaru), Tobelo, Tidore, Ternate
9.1.2.1	Shor
9.1.4.2	Buryats: Eastern (Trans-Baikal, Mongolia and Inner Mongolia)
9.1.5.3	Mongols (Khalkha)
9.1.5.4	Daur (Daghur)
9.2.1.1	Mansi
9.2.3.1	Tundra Nenets