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Motif

Name_eng:

More cowardly than the hare

Description:

The hare is in despair because he is afraid of all creatures but is delighted when he sees other animals (sheep, frogs, dusks) being afraid of him

Name_rus:

Кто трусливее зайца?

Description_rus:

Зайцы в отчаянии, что они всех трусливее, но радуются, узнав что есть животные (лягушки, овцы), которые сами боятся их

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.

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

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Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.2.2	Sicily
3.3.3.3	Wallons, Picardie
3.3.3.4	Upper Brittany
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
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
3.3.5.2	Frisians
3.3.5.3	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
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.4.1.1	Ancient Greece
3.4.1.2	Ancient Italy: Latins, Etruscans, Magna Graecia
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
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
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.1.3.1	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)
4.1.4.1	Early Russian written sources
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.2.1.3	Danes
4.2.1.4	Swedes
4.2.2.1	Western Sami
4.2.2.2	Eastern Sami (including Inari, Skolts)
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.4.1	Votians
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.4.4	Livonians
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
5.1.6.1	Ingush
5.1.7.4	Laks
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.2.2.5	Kurds
5.3.2.1	Aramaic (Syrians)
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
9.3.1.1	Central Yakuts (Sakha)
9.3.2.1	Western Tungus/Evenki: Podkamennaya Tunguska, Katanga, Nepa, Kamenka, Upper Lena
9.3.4.1	Evens (Lamuts)