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Motif

Name_eng:

Duped watchman

Description:

An ogre or a stronger animal catches a man or a weaker animal or drives him into a small enclosure and goes away for a time leaving a watchman. The hero dupes the watchman, escapes. (Most, though hardly all American cases can have post-Columbian African origin)

Name_rus:

Одураченный сторож

Description_rus:

Сильный персонаж загоняет слабого в ловушку и оставляет кого-нибудь сторожить добычу; слабый одурачивает сторожа и убегает. (Значительная часть, хотя вряд ли все, американских текстов может быть недавнего африканского происхождения)

Motif type:

Adventures and tricks

Motif group:

11 Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior

Motif analysis result:

2. Only those motifs that are found in America (including the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans)

3. Only those motifs that are found in Central and South America

4. All motifs of category 1 (cosmology) in sub-Saharan Africa and those motifs of category 2 (adventures) which are found in sub-Saharan Africa and widespread in the Indo-Pacific world with scarce or no cases in Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

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Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.2.4.1	Congo (Koongo, Bacongo; incl Vili, Fioti, (Ma)Yombe, MuKunyi), Ndombo, Luango (Loango), Zombo (Sambo), Laadi (Laari), (Ba)Fioti, Woyo (Kiwoyo)
1.2.4.13	Rwanda (incl Hutu, Tutsi, Kiga), Rundi, (Ma)Shi, Banyabungu; Rega
1.2.5.1	Ganda, (Ba)Nyoro, Nyankole, Masaba (Gisu), Luia (=Luyia, Haya, Luhya, Bantu Kawirondo; incl. Vugusu, Maragoli)
1.2.5.2	Nyamwesi, Sumbwa
1.2.5.4	Kerewe, Sukuma, Kwaya, Kumbi, Busiba, Gusii, Suba
1.2.5.7	Kikuyu, Chuka, Embu, Emberre, Mwimbe
1.2.5.8	Chagga (Jagga; incl Wasu), Pare, Digo
1.2.6.4	Enenga, Mpongwe, Kuta (Koto), Nkomi, Masango, Mindumu, Mbede, Mitsogo, Bawunga, Ndumu (Ndumbo), Duma, Teke, (B)wende
1.2.6.5	Aka, Baka (Badjue) and other Western (Bantu speaking) Pygmies
1.3.1.1	Yambasa, Banen (Tunen)
1.3.2.2	Biu-Mandara: Margi, Kilba, Bura, Kera, Karekare (Kerri-Kerri), Bachama, Zulgo, Giziga, Hdi, Kapsiki, Mandara (incl Mukulehe, Matakam), Mofu (Mofu-Gudur), Somrai (Sibine, Shibha)
1.3.4.7	Senufo
1.3.5.9	Kpelle (incl Kono)
1.4.2.2	Shilluk, Anuak
1.4.2.3	Bari (incl Fajulu, Kuku), Kakwa
1.4.3.1	Murle, Me'en (Bodi), Didinga
1.4.3.3	Acoli (Acholi), Lur (Alur, Luri), Lango
1.4.4.1	Mangbetu (Ngbetu), Mangbutu, Moru, Madi, Lugbara, Lendu (=Bale)
1.4.4.4	Zande (Azande, incl Nzakara)
1.4.5.3	Zaghawa
1.4.5.6	Fur
13.3.2.4	Biloxi
15.2.3.1	Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan)
15.2.3.6	Guiana Kariña, Kaliña, Galibi
15.4.1.1	Manao, Katawishi (Teffé lake); groups of uncertain affiliation mostly from Rio Jamunda
15.5.2.3	Shipibo, Conibo, Setebo
15.6.1.1	Mundurucu, Curuaia
15.6.3.1	Rikbaktsa
3.1.3.3	Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
3.3.5.4	Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.1.3	Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
6.2.2.8	Bhutan
6.2.3.4	Northern Naga: Konyak (incl. Tangsa), Lungshang, Wancho, Nokte, Moclum, Lunshan, Chang, Maring, Naga of Myanmar