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Motif

Name_eng:

Invisible servant (“Bring don’t know what”)

Description:

Hero receives a difficult task (usually to bring an object or creature that have no particular indications and properties) and comes across an invisible person who is a powerful and well-disposed servant to anybody who becomes his master. The hero is kind with him and the person helps him

Name_rus:

Невидимый слуга («Принеси то не знаю что»)

Description_rus:

Получив трудное задание (обычно: принести объект или существо, не имеющие определенных признаков, типа «то, не знаю что», «диво дивное» и т.п.), герой встречает невидимого человека, прислуживающего другим; герой ласков с ним, тот становится его помощником

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
10.2.2.5	Jiangsu and Zhejang Chinese
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.1.3.1	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)
4.1.3.1	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)
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.1.3.3	Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
4.1.3.4	Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
4.1.3.6	Russians: Southern part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Belgorod, Voronezh, Tambov, Penza, Lipetsk, Orel, Kursk, Bryansk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Samara, Simbirsk and Saratov provinces)
4.1.3.8	Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.1.3	Svans
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
9.1.2.1	Shor
9.1.2.2	Khakas
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)