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Motif

Name_eng:

Tests to reveal the sex of a person

Description:

People suspect that a young man is a disguised girl and suggest tests to identify the real sex of this person

Name_rus:

Испытания: девушка или юноша?

Description_rus:

Люди подозревают, что юноша – переодетая девушка. Предлагаются испытания, чтобы это установить, но девушке (долгое время) удается избежать разоблачения

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
1.4.1.2	Arabs of Sudan
3.1.3.2	Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
3.1.3.5	Morocco Arabs
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.2.3	Sardinia, Corsica
3.3.2.6	Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.3.5.7	Eastern Prussia
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
3.5.4.1	Gagauz
4.1.1.1	Poles
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)
4.1.3.5	Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
5.1.7.5	Lezgians, Archin, Kürin; Khinalug
5.1.7.7	Tabasaran, Aghul
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.4.2.8	Uzbek
6.3.1.2	Karen, Pa-O, Padaung, Kayah
9.2.3.1	Tundra Nenets