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Motif

Name_eng:

To make a mute woman speak

Description:

A girl who keeps silence is promised to one who would make her speak; a man with much difficulty makes his magic wife speak

Name_rus:

Разговорить молчащую

Description_rus:

Постоянно молчащая девушка обещана тому, кто сумеет ее разговорить; мужу с трудом удается заставить заговорить волшебную жену

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
1.3.1.5	Yoruba; incl Ife), Nupe, Bini (Edo), Engenni, Chamba, Dakka, Kukuruku
1.3.4.2	Northern Gur (Oti-Volta): Mamprussi, Dagomba, Dagari (Dagara; incl Lodaga), Bassari, Mosi, Nankanse, Konkomba, Moba; Ditammari, Nyende, Bulsa (pl Builsa, Bulo)
1.4.1.2	Arabs of Sudan
1.4.5.2	Sara, incl. Ngambaye (Ngambaï), Mbaï
10.2.3.2	Lisu, Achang, Taunyo
10.2.3.5	Meo (Hmong) of Thailand, Laos and Northern Vietnam
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
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
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs
3.1.3.7	Tunisia Arabs
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.1.5.1	Stavropol Turkmen (recent migrants from Mangyshlak Peninsular)
5.1.5.2	Nogai
5.1.7.6	Rutul, Tsakhur
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.2.2.4	Talysh
5.3.2.1	Aramaic (Syrians)
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.3.2.3	Arabs of Iraq
5.3.2.3	Arabs of Iraq
5.3.2.4	Saudi Arabia
5.3.2.6	Arabs of Kuwait, Bahrein, Qatar, Emirates, Oman,
5.3.3.1	Yemen
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.4.2.7	Bukhara Arabs
5.4.4.3	Burusho (Hunza)
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
5.6.2.10	Sindhi
5.6.2.18	Oriya (incl. Dom/Domba/Dombo, Ghasi, Bhat and other Oriya-speaking castes of Odisha)
5.6.2.9	Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
5.6.3.3	Kannada, Lingayat, Halakki
6.3.1.4	Thai of Thailand