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Motif

Name_eng:

Night dances of girls

Description:

Every morning girl' or (rare) boy’s clothes are in disorder, the boy looks very tied. People spy on her (or on him) and discover that she or he spends nights in the non-human world

Name_rus:

Ночные пляски девушек

Description_rus:

Девушка или юноша по ночам пропадает. Обычно одежда или обувь девушки оказываются за ночь изношена, либо юноша утром выглядит больным и усталым. За девушкой или юношей следят и видят, как она или он проводит ночь в ином мире

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:

ATU ID:

306

Stith Thompson ID:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.3.4.2	Northern Gur (Oti-Volta): Mamprussi, Dagomba, Dagari (Dagara; incl Lodaga), Bassari, Mosi, Nankanse, Konkomba, Moba; Ditammari, Nyende, Bulsa (pl Builsa, Bulo)
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.1.5	Basques
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.3.4.1	Ireland
3.3.4.4	England
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
3.3.5.4	Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
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
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.2.4	Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.1.3.3	Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
4.1.3.5	Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
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)
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.2.1.3	Danes
4.2.1.4	Swedes
4.2.1.5	Icelanders
4.2.2.1	Western Sami
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.2.4.4	Livonians
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.6.2	Chechens
5.1.7.9	Tats
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.3.2.4	Saudi Arabia
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.4.2.6	Pashto
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.6.2.10	Sindhi
5.6.2.14	Bengali, Maithili
5.6.2.9	Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
5.6.3.1	Telugu (incl. Yanadi, Chenchu)
6.1.2.2	Kond (Khond, Kondh; language is Kui, incl Kuttia, Konda-Dora), Koya; Pengo
6.2.1.3	Eastern Tibetans (Kham; Sichuan, NW Yunnan)
6.3.1.9	Khamti, Ahom