j32


Motif

Motif code: 
j32
Name_eng: 
To identify the night thief
Description: 

Some valuables (foals, hay, apples, etc.) are regularly stolen. Nobody (the elder brothers) is able to catch the thief and only the hero (the younger brother) finds who it is

Name_rus: 
Братья стерегут ночного вора
Description_rus: 
Кто-то регулярно крадет животных (коня, овцу и пр.) или урожай (яблоки, сено, горох, цветы и пр.). Взявшиеся стеречь (обычно старшие братья) упускают похитителя и лишь герой (обычно младший брат) его обнаруживает
Motif group: 
Motif analysis result tradition count all: 
112

Linked traditions:
Aramaic (Syrians)
Mehri; Harsusi, Jibbali (Shahri, Shauri), Hobyot
Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
Arabs of Iraq
Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
Western Sahara and Mauritania Arabs; Berbers of Mauritania (Zénaga)
Arabs of Sudan
Swahili, Midjikenda (incl Giryama), Nyika, Duruma; Ngindo, Kiluguru and other Islamic groups of the Eastern Coast of Africa
Northern Halmahera Papuans: Galela, Loda, Pagu, Modole, Tabaru (Tobaru), Tobelo, Tidore, Ternate
Shan
Santali, Turi, Mahli
Northern Munda of Kharwar branch: Birhor, Ho, Mundari, Kol, Asur (including Agaria, Kol, Birjhia), Bhumij
Tamil, Muthuvan, Marvar
Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
Ireland
Spain
Basques
Catalan
Maltese
Sicily
Sardinia, Corsica
Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
French (northern France)
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
Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
Czech
Slovakians
Hungarians
Greeks (modern)
Bulgarians
Macedonians
Serbs, Monte Negro,
Bosnia Muslims
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Albanians
Lithuanians
Latvians
Livonians
Estonians
Setu
Finns
Karelians
Western Sami
Norwegians
Danes
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
Byelarusians
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)
Uzbek
Wakhi, Ishkashimi (including Sanglich), Munji
Yagnobi
Tajik
Persians
Abaza (Abazins)
Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
Abkhaz
Karachays, Balkar
Ossetians
Ossetians
Ingush
Ingush
Laks
Avar, Andi, Akhvakh
Nogai
Tats
Svans
Georgians
Armenians
Kalmyk
Crimea Tatars, Karaims
Gagauz
Anatolia Turks
Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
Kurds
Kara Kalpak
Kazakh
Kirghiz
Turkmen
Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
Bashkirs
Mari (Cheremis)
Chuvash
Udmurt
Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
Mansi
Tundra Nenets
Mongols (Khalkha)
Daur (Daghur)
Shor
Chechens
Wallons, Picardie
Galicians
Kordofan
Parya of Gissar (Hisor) Valley (Tajikistan)
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Ukrainians: Northern dialects
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
Buryats: Eastern (trans Baikal), i.e. Khori
Arakan, Chakma, Khyang
Lutsi (Ludza)
Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
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
Eastern Prussia
Zaza (western Kurds)

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