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Motif

Name_eng:

A horse with a skin resistant to bites

Description:

Hero’s horse asks his master to cover him with skins (smear with pitch and sprinkle with sand, etc.) that makes him invulnerable to other horse’ bites

Name_rus:

Конь, чью шкуру не прокусить

Description_rus:

Велев покрыть себя шкурами (намазать смолой и посыпать песком, и т.п.), богатырский конь становится неуязвимым для укусов другого коня

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
3.3.3.1	Bretagne
3.5.2.4	Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
3.5.3.3	Transylvanian Saksons
3.5.4.1	Gagauz
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.1.3.4	Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
4.1.3.6	Russians: Southern part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Belgorod, Voronezh, Tambov, Penza, Lipetsk, Orel, Kursk, Bryansk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Samara, Simbirsk and Saratov provinces)
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.6.2	Chechens
5.1.8.1	Terek Cossacks
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.4.2.5	Baluch