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Motif

Name_eng:

To play his fiddle before the death

Description:

A person sentenced to death asks to give him something of his belongings, usually a musical instrument. As soon as he gets it, he becomes powerful and escapes

Name_rus:

Поиграть перед смертью

Description_rus:

Приговоренный к казни человек просит дать ему напоследок что-нибудь из его имущества, обычно музыкальный инструмент. Получив его, он обретает власть над собравшимися и спасается

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
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.2.1	Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)
3.3.2.8	Italians: Northeast (Trentino – Alto Adige, Veneto, Venezia Giulia, Southern Tirol, Friuli, Istria)
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)
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks