m196


Motif

Motif code: 
m196
Name_eng: 
The silence wager
Description: 

A man and his wife make a wager: Whoever speaks first must do certain trivial work or get a bigger portion of some simple food. They or one of them continue to keep silence even being exposed to violence or taken by others as the dead

Name_rus: 
Кто заговорит первым?
Description_rus: 
Муж и жена договариваются присудить ничтожную награду тому, кто дольше будет молчать. Оба или один из супругов продолжают молчать даже тогда, когда другие принимают их за покойников или совершают над ними насилие
Motif analysis result tradition count all: 
73
ATU ID: 
1351

Linked traditions:
Aramaic (Syrians)
Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
Arabs of Iraq
Arabs of Egypt
Morocco Arabs
Algeria Arabs
Swahili, Midjikenda (incl Giryama), Nyika, Duruma; Ngindo, Kiluguru and other Islamic groups of the Eastern Coast of Africa
Viet, Muong
Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)
Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
Kannada, Lingayat, Halakki
Tamil, Muthuvan, Marvar
Bengali, Maithili
Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
Nepali; Tharu
Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
Himachali-Pahari (Western Pahari)
Sinhalese; Vedda
Koreans; Goguryeo
Ireland
England
Scotland
Spain
Portuguese
Catalan
Italians: Northern (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Southern Tirol, Emilia–Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino–Alto Adige)
Sicily
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
Hungarians
Greeks (modern)
Bulgarians
Serbs, Monte Negro,
Slovenians
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Albanians
Lithuanians
Latvians
Finns
Norwegians
Swedes
Danes
Byelarusians
Uzbek
Yagnobi
Highland Tajik
Baluch
Persians
Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
Abkhaz
Armenians
Anatolia Turks
Anatolia Turks
Kurds
Kazakh
Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
Bashkirs
Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu
Wallons, Picardie
Jiangsu and Zhejang Chinese
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Ukrainians: Northern dialects
Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
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)
Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
Frisians
Rusyns, Hutsuls
Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)

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m196a Shared traditions: 13 All traditions: 15 Weight: 867
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i59b3 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
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m198b1 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
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k73a9 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
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k56a5b Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 13 Weight: 846
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