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m39a2c
Motif
Motif code:
m39a3c
Name_eng:
The sowing of salt
Description:
Fool (or a person who pretends to be mad) sows salt (small objects) like grain
Name_rus:
Сеют соль
Description_rus:
Глупец (или персонаж, притворяющийся безумным) сеет соль (мелкие предметы) подобно зерну
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:
45
ATU ID:
1200
Linked traditions:
Saho, Afar
Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
Rajasthani (Radjasthan and Madhya Pradesh)
Spain
Portuguese
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
Poles
Hungarians
Bulgarians
Macedonians
Serbs, Monte Negro,
Bosnia Muslims
Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
Slovenians
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Lithuanians
Latvians
Livonians
Estonians
Finns
Eastern Sami (including Inari, Skolts)
Norwegians
Swedes
Danes
Byelarusians
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)
Tajik
Georgians
Armenians
Crimea Tatars, Karaims
Anatolia Turks
Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
Siberian Tatars
Urums, Rumei
Wallons, Picardie
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Ukrainians: Northern dialects
Early Russian written sources
Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
Faroe Islands
Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
Dogri
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j25a1
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
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j51a2
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 6 Weight: 1000
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k22aa
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
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i87e
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
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b87b
Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 10 Weight: 800
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m38c3
Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 9 Weight: 778
Motif:
m199d1
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 8 Weight: 750
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k38b3c
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif:
n17
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 8 Weight: 750
Motif:
b49b
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
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k80a5
Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 8 Weight: 750
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k32h1
Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 15 Weight: 733
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i42g3
Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 11 Weight: 727
Motif:
h33a
Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 14 Weight: 714
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b124
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
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k64c
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
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k73a9
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
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l9g
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif:
b33f
Shared traditions: 12 All traditions: 17 Weight: 706