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Motif

Name_eng:

Listen in secret of demon

Description:

Person will be ruined if he or she would not find an answer for a riddle of a demon. The answer is found accidentally when the person or somebody else hears how the demon talks by himself or with another demon. See motif C29

Name_rus:

Подслушанный секрет демона

Description_rus:

Человек погибнет, если не найдет ответ на вопрос демона. Человек или его знакомый случайно узнают ответ, слыша, как демон разговаривает сам с собой или с другим демоном. См. мотив C29

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
10.3.2.1	Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.1.5	Basques
3.3.2.1	Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)
3.3.2.2	Sicily
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
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
3.3.4.2	Wales
3.3.4.3	Scotland
3.3.4.4	England
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
3.3.5.6	Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.2.3	Bosnia Muslims
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.1.3	Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.2.1.3	Danes
4.2.1.4	Swedes
4.2.1.6	Faroe Islands
4.2.2.1	Western Sami
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
5.6.2.1	Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
5.6.2.14	Bengali, Maithili
9.1.5.7	Mongols of Inner Mongolia