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Motif

Name_eng:

One woman, two men and five eggs

Description:

To divide a certain (often five) number of eggs between people of different sex, a clever woman takes into consideration that every man has already two eggs

Name_rus:

Одна женщина, двое мужчин, пять яиц

Description_rus:

Чтобы разделить определенное (часто пять) число яиц поровну между людьми разного пола, хитроумная женщина принимает в расчет, что у каждого из мужчин два яйца уже есть

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:

1663

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.1.1.1	Ancient Egypt
3.1.3.5	Morocco Arabs
3.1.3.7	Tunisia Arabs
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.2.3	Sardinia, Corsica
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.3.5.7	Eastern Prussia
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.2.3	Bosnia Muslims
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.2.3.2	Karelians
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
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
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.5.1.1	Kazakh