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Motif

Name_eng:

The black beard and the grey head

Description:

A dialogue is based on fact that the beard of the young men is black while the beard of the old men is grey. Usually a man answers the question why the hair of his head is grey and the hair of his beard is black. “The hair of the head is twenty years older than the beard”

Name_rus:

Черная борода, седая голова

Description_rus:

В диалоге обыгрывается тот факт, что в молодости борода черная, а в старости – белая. Обычно человек объясняет, почему его голова поседела, а борода нет: борода на 20 лет моложе

Motif type:

Adventures and tricks

Motif group:

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:

921C

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.3.2.6	Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
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
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.2.1.3	Danes
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
5.4.2.6	Pashto
5.6.2.9	Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)