m118a


Motif

Motif code: 
m118a
Name_eng: 
Forty thieves and jars with oil
Description: 

Chief of thieves (demonic person) brings his men (other demons) into some people’s yard hiding them in empty jars, casks, etc. The plan to kill members of the household at night. A girl (a young woman; rare: somebody else from the family) gets to know about the danger and kills the thieves one by one (usually pouring boiling water into the jars)

Name_rus: 
Сорок разбойников и кувшины с маслом
Description_rus: 
Атаман (демон) привозит во двор чужого дома разбойников (других демонов), спрятав их в пустых кувшинах, бочках и т.п. Ночью они должны напасть на хозяев. Девушка или молодая женщина (реже сам хозяин) узнает об опасности и губит разбойников (обычно налив кипяток в каждый кувшин или бочку)
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: 
62
ATU ID: 
954(2)

Linked traditions:
Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
Arabs of Iraq
Arabs of Egypt
Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
Algeria Arabs
Tunisia Arabs
Tiv, Bamum (Bamun), Mungaka (Mgaka, Bali), Beba, Anaguta, Bete (Mbete, Karang), Ekoi, Nyang, Vute (Wute), Jukun, Chamba, Bamileke, Kwotto, Kirri; Denya (Nyang)
Dards (Kalash, Kho, Kohistani, Shina, Pashai)
Ireland
Spain
Portuguese
Basques
Catalan
Aragon
Maltese
Italians: Northern (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Southern Tirol, Emilia–Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino–Alto Adige)
Sicily
Sardinia, Corsica
French (northern France)
Dutch, Flemish
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
Poles
Czech
Slovakians
Hungarians
Greeks (modern)
Bulgarians
Macedonians
Serbs, Monte Negro,
Bosnia Muslims
Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
Albanians
Lithuanians
Latvians
Livonians
Estonians
Finns
Norwegians
Swedes
Danes
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
Byelarusians
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)
Bukhara Arabs
Anatolia Turks
Mari (Cheremis)
Mordvins
Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
Wallons, Picardie
Arabs of Kuwait, Bahrein, Qatar, Emirates, Oman,
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
Frisians
Faroe Islands
Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland

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Motif: m198b1 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 7 Weight: 1000
Motif: f9g1 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 6 Weight: 1000
Motif: h54a Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 8 Weight: 1000
Motif: m199c1 Shared traditions: 18 All traditions: 19 Weight: 947
Motif: k76d Shared traditions: 12 All traditions: 13 Weight: 923
Motif: k56a5 Shared traditions: 16 All traditions: 18 Weight: 889
Motif: m38d5 Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 9 Weight: 889
Motif: m38c3 Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 9 Weight: 889
Motif: k103c Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 9 Weight: 889
Motif: l65b5 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 8 Weight: 875
Motif: k56a5c Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 8 Weight: 875
Motif: k27z2e Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
Motif: h6c2 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
Motif: l9g Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
Motif: b124 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
Motif: m197f Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 13 Weight: 846