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Motif

Name_eng:

Pregnancy from the snake eggs

Description:

An ill-disposed elder woman makes a young woman or girl to swallow snake eggs (a snake, something else). Her stomach becomes to swell and the man believes that the victim has become pregnant because of her dissoluteness (rare: to make snakes, worms, etc. to kill her from inside)

Name_rus:

Беременность от змеиных яиц

Description_rus:

Недоброжелательница заставляет женщину проглотить змеиное яйцо (змею, еще что-то), чтобы мужчина подумал, будто у женщины внебрачная беременность (редко: чтобы змеи высосали из нее все соки)

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
1.4.1.2	Arabs of Sudan
3.1.3.2	Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
3.1.3.4	Western Sahara and Mauritania Arabs; Berbers of Mauritania (Zénaga)
3.1.3.5	Morocco Arabs
3.1.3.7	Tunisia Arabs
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
4.1.3.4	Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
4.1.3.5	Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
4.2.1.3	Danes
5.2.2.6	Zaza (western Kurds)
5.3.2.1	Aramaic (Syrians)
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.6.2.15	Assamese
5.6.3.3	Kannada, Lingayat, Halakki
5.6.3.4	Tamil, Muthuvan, Marvar