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Motif

Name_eng:

Speckled animals

Description:

Hero comes to an agreement with antagonist that he can take animals of particular appearance or with particular behavior and takes all or most of them

Name_rus:

Пестрые животные

Description_rus:

Договорившись с противником, что ему достанутся животные с определенными внешними признаками или ведущие себя определенным образом, герой при дележе скота забирает всех или почти всех

Motif type:

Adventures and tricks

Motif group:

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

Motif analysis result:

1. Only those Old World motifs that are not found in America besides among the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans.

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.1.1.2	Khoekhoe (=Hottentot; incl Nama, Korana); Damara
1.2.1.3	Tswana (Chwana), Suto (Soto; incl Pedi, Mbire)
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.1.5	Basques
3.3.2.5	Maltese
3.3.2.6	Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.3.3.5	Occitanie (southern France): Limousin, Auvergne, Provence, Aquitaine, Albret, Gers, Aveyron (Rouerge), Armagnac, Landes, Gascogne, Vivarés, Roussillon, Pyrénées, Bearne, Guyenne, Bigorre, Ain, Hautes Alpes, Ariège, Vienne, Aude, French part of Swiss
3.3.4.1	Ireland
3.3.4.4	England
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
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.2.1.4	Swedes
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.2.4.4	Livonians
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
5.3.1.1	Old and New Testament
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
6.2.4.1	Kachin (Jingpho), Chak, Maru