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Motif

Name_eng:

Forty horses or forty knives?

Description:

Person is asked to choose between objects that have utilitarian value, often forty (seven, etc.) horses or forty knives. Usually the person does not understand that the question is about different kinds of execution

Name_rus:

Сорок лошадей или сорок ножей?

Description_rus:

Виновному предлагают на выбор предметы, имеющие утилитарную ценность (часто сорок, семь, три и т.п. лошадей или столько же ножей). Тот обычно не понимает, что речь идет о способах казни

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
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.2.1	Albanians
3.5.4.1	Gagauz
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.1.2.2	Urums, Rumei
5.1.5.2	Nogai
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.13	Parya of Gissar (Hisor) Valley (Tajikistan)
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.4.2.8	Uzbek
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.2.2	Yugur (Sarïg Yogïr, Yellow Uyghur)
9.1.1.1	Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
9.1.3.1	Tuvinians of Tuva
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
9.1.4.2	Buryats: Eastern (Trans-Baikal, Mongolia and Inner Mongolia)
9.1.5.7	Mongols of Inner Mongolia
9.3.1.1	Central Yakuts (Sakha)