m198a3

Motif

Name_eng:

Who did steal the ruby?

Description:

One of the brothers steals a treasure for which all of them have equal rights or he is a bastard. Brothers come to a powerful person and want him to say who of them is the thief or the bastard. Usually the person tells a story and discovers the guilty one considering his reaction

Name_rus:

Кто похитил рубин?

Description_rus:

Один из братьев тайком забирает принадлежащие всем им ценности или является незаконнорожденным. Братья приходят к властному персонажу, чтобы тот определил похитителя или незаконнорожденного. Обычно персонаж рассказывает историю и определяет виновного по реакции пришедших

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.1.3.7	Tunisia Arabs
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.4.1	Ireland
3.3.4.3	Scotland
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.6.1	Ingush
5.1.7.3	Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi
5.1.7.9	Tats
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.2.2.5	Kurds
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.3.2.3	Arabs of Iraq
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
5.4.2.14	Farsiwans
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.4.2.6	Pashto
5.4.3.1	Yagnobi
5.4.4.2	Dards (Kalash, Kho, Kohistani, Shina, Pashai)
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
5.5.2.1	Uyghur
5.6.2.1	Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
5.6.2.13	Rajasthani (Radjasthan and Madhya Pradesh)
5.6.2.17	Sinhalese; Vedda
5.6.2.2	Himachali-Pahari (Western Pahari)
5.6.2.9	Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
6.3.2.1	Khmer
9.1.2.2	Khakas