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Motif

Name_eng:

To bath lizards and bugs

Description:

Supernatural person asks a girl to bath (to feed) his or her children. These are lizards, bugs, or wild animals. The girl does it well and is rewarded

Name_rus:

Выкупать ящериц и жуков

Description_rus:

Сверхъестественный персонаж просит девушку выкупать (накормить) его (ее) детей. Это змеи, жуки или дикие звери. Девушка все исполняет, награждена

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
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
3.5.4.1	Gagauz
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)
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.1.3.4	Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
6.4.6.1	Minahasa (incl. Tondano, Tentemboan), Bantik