m196


Motif

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 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: 
73
ATU ID: 
1351

Linked traditions:
Areal IDTradition
1.2.5.12Swahili, Midjikenda (incl Giryama), Nyika, Duruma; Ngindo, Kiluguru and other Islamic groups of the Eastern Coast of Africa
10.2.2.5Jiangsu and Zhejang Chinese
10.2.4.1Koreans; Goguryeo
10.3.2.1Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu
3.1.2.1Arabs of Egypt
3.1.3.5Morocco Arabs
3.1.3.6Algeria Arabs
3.3.1.1Spain
3.3.1.2Portuguese
3.3.1.3Catalan
3.3.2.2Sicily
3.3.2.6Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
3.3.2.7Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.3.2.8Italians: Northeast (Trentino – Alto Adige, Veneto, Venezia Giulia, Southern Tirol, Friuli, Istria)
3.3.3.3Wallons, Picardie
3.3.4.1Ireland
3.3.4.3Scotland
3.3.4.4England
3.3.5.1Dutch, Flemish
3.3.5.2Frisians
3.3.5.3Germans: 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
3.3.5.4Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
3.5.1.1Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2Bulgarians
3.5.2.1Albanians
3.5.2.2Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.2.5Slovenians
3.5.3.1Hungarians
3.5.3.2Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.1.1Poles
4.1.1.4Czech
4.1.2.2Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.3Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.1.2.4Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.1.2.5Byelarusians
4.1.3.2Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.1.3.4Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
4.1.3.6Russians: 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)
4.1.3.8Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.2.1.2Norwegians
4.2.1.3Danes
4.2.1.4Swedes
4.2.3.1Finns
4.2.5.1Latvians
4.2.5.2Lithuanians
4.3.3.1Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2Bashkirs
5.1.3.1Abkhaz
5.1.3.3Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.2.2.1Armenians
5.2.2.3Anatolia Turks
5.2.2.3Anatolia Turks
5.2.2.5Kurds
5.3.2.1Aramaic (Syrians)
5.3.2.2Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.3.2.3Arabs of Iraq
5.4.2.1Persians
5.4.2.4Highland Tajik
5.4.2.5Baluch
5.4.2.8Uzbek
5.4.3.1Yagnobi
5.5.1.1Kazakh
5.6.1.1Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
5.6.2.1Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
5.6.2.14Bengali, Maithili
5.6.2.17Sinhalese; Vedda
5.6.2.2Himachali-Pahari (Western Pahari)
5.6.2.7Nepali; Tharu
5.6.2.9Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
5.6.3.3Kannada, Lingayat, Halakki
5.6.3.4Tamil, Muthuvan, Marvar
6.1.2.3Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)
6.3.2.10Viet, Muong

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