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Motif

Name_eng:

The old man asks Death to help him to carry a load

Description:

An old man has to carry a heavy load of wood. Tired and exhausted, he wishes for death. When Death appears he asks her to help him with the load

Name_rus:

Смерть и вязанка дров

Description_rus:

Человек призывает Смерть, а когда та приходит, просит ее помочь ему поднять вязанку дров или тащить воз с дровами

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Motif analysis result:

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

ATU ID:

845

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.1.3.2	Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
3.3.2.6	Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.3.4.1	Ireland
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
3.3.5.2	Frisians
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
3.4.1.1	Ancient Greece
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.1.3.6	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)
4.1.4.1	Early Russian written sources
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.4.2.6	Pashto
5.4.2.8	Uzbek
5.6.2.7	Nepali; Tharu
5.6.3.4	Tamil, Muthuvan, Marvar