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Motif

Name_eng:

Humans knew the time of their death

Description:

In the year before they were to die, people neglected their responsibilities (they repair fences with temporary materials). Therefore, God decided that they should not know in advance when they will die

Name_rus:

Люди знали, когда умрут

Description_rus:

Раньше люди знали, когда умрут, поэтому перед смертью переставали заниматься делами или исполняли свои обязанности кое-как

Motif type:

Adventures and tricks

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

04 Origin of death, diseases and hard life

11 Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior

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:

ATU ID:

934H(4)

Stith Thompson ID:

A1593

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
10.2.2.6	Henan and Hubei Chinese
3.3.1.5	Basques
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.3.3.4	Upper Brittany
3.3.4.1	Ireland
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
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.1.3	Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.3	Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.1.3.1	Russians: Central part of Russian ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500: Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, eastern part of Smolensk provinces (most of Smolensk province is Belorussian ethnic territory)
4.2.1.4	Swedes
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.4.4	Livonians
4.2.4.5	Lutsi (Ludza)
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
9.1.2.2	Khakas