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Motif

Name_eng:

Demon’s answers to his wife’s questions

Description:

A woman who lives in the house of a supernatural person conceals the man who had come to her and puts questions to this person. The answers that are received and became known to the man are of great importance for him

Name_rus:

Ответы демона на вопросы его жены

Description_rus:

Женщина, живущая в доме сверхъестественного персонажа, прячет пришедшего к ней человека и задает персонажу вопросы, ответы на которые человек должен узнать

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
1.3.4.6	Songhai
3.1.3.7	Tunisia Arabs
3.1.3.8	Tuareg
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.1.5	Basques
3.3.2.5	Maltese
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.3.2.8	Italians: Northeast (Trentino – Alto Adige, Veneto, Venezia Giulia, Southern Tirol, Friuli, Istria)
3.3.3.5	Occitanie (southern France): Limousin, Auvergne, Provence, Aquitaine, Albret, Gers, Aveyron (Rouerge), Armagnac, Landes, Gascogne, Vivarés, Roussillon, Pyrénées, Bearne, Guyenne, Bigorre, Ain, Hautes Alpes, Ariège, Vienne, Aude, French part of Swiss
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
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.3.5.6	Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
3.5.2.1	Albanians
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.2.3	Bosnia Muslims
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
3.5.4.1	Gagauz
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.1.3	Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
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
4.1.3.5	Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.2.1.3	Danes
4.2.1.4	Swedes
4.2.2.1	Western Sami
4.2.2.2	Eastern Sami (including Inari, Skolts)
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.4.4	Livonians
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Karata, Akhvakh
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.1.2	Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.3.1	Yagnobi
5.4.3.2	Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi
5.4.4.1	Kafir, or Nuristani: Prasun; Kati (incl. Paruni), Ashkun (Ashunu), Waigali
5.4.4.2	Dards (Kalash, Kho, Kohistani, Shina, Pashai)
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
5.5.2.1	Uyghur
5.6.1.1	Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
5.6.2.12	Marathi (incl. Bhamta; incl. Mumbai area)
5.6.2.14	Bengali, Maithili
5.6.2.7	Nepali; Tharu
5.6.2.9	Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
6.1.1.1	Santali, Turi, Mahli
6.1.2.5	Maria, Muria, and other South-Central Dravidians: Binjhwar, Baсор, Bhattra, Bom, Jhoria (=Jhodia), Gadaba (in Koraput, neighbors of Munda-speaking Gadaba), Duruwa (Parji), Mehtar; Pardhan
9.1.1.4	Siberian Tatars