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Motif

Name_eng:

Cat brings a misfortune

Description:

Because a girl or young woman offends a cat (rare: a dog, a cock), it plays a trick that brings the girl a misfortune (usually extinguishes the fire and in search of it the girl gets to a demon)

Name_rus:

Кошка гасит огонь

Description_rus:

Девушка обидела кошку (редко: собаку, петуха) и та в отместку подстраивает так, что девушку постигает несчастье (обычно гасит огонь, пойдя за которым девушка попадает к демону)

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
3.1.2.2	Arabs of Libya
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
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs
3.1.3.7	Tunisia Arabs
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.2.2.6	Zaza (western Kurds)
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
5.4.3.1	Yagnobi
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.2.1	Uyghur
5.5.2.5	Salars
5.5.2.6	Hui of Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Qinghai (rare Hui texts from Southern and Eastern China are clustered with the Chinese ones)
5.6.2.12	Marathi (incl. Bhamta; incl. Mumbai area)
5.6.2.17	Sinhalese; Vedda
5.6.2.17	Sinhalese; Vedda
6.2.2.8	Bhutan
9.1.5.6	Monguor (Tu), Shirongol