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Motif

Name_eng:

The restored chain

Description:

During a year somebody tries to break, to make thinner a chain or rope with which the person himself or somebody else is tied. In a certain day when the chain is almost broken it is restored or a post to which the person is tied sinks into the ground again

Name_rus:

Восстановленная цепь

Description_rus:

На протяжении года некто пытается распилить, разорвать цепь или веревку, удерживающую его самого или другого персонажа. В определенный день года, когда цепь уже совсем истончилась, она восстанавливается в прежнем виде, либо столб, к которому прикреплена цепь, вновь входит в землю

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

08 Queer and monstrous beings, creatures, objects and loci, folk beliefs related to particular phenomena and objects

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
3.3.2.2	Sicily
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
3.3.5.3	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
3.3.5.4	Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
3.5.2.1	Albanians
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.2.4.5	Lutsi (Ludza)
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.1.6.1	Ingush
5.1.7.4	Laks
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.1.2	Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz
5.2.1.3	Svans
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.4.2.1	Persians