B44A. Time units.

.14.19.21.24.33.34.41.-.46.48.-.50.74.

Characters argue about the number of discrete units of time that determine the length of a certain period of time (usually winter or night). See motif B44.

North Africa. Algerian Arabs (Tiaret Plateau) [The prophet asks animals for their opinion about Ramadan; the jackal wants it to last one morning and consist of eating figs; hare: as long as it takes for peeling the skin on the trunk of a yuyuba; boar: as many (days) as I have bristles and excrement; partridge: a month; the Prophet rewarded the partridge by painting its beak and legs with henna; its meat is edible, it inspires poets ; forbid eating wild boar and pig meat; the hare is edible, but its tail is not; everyone will drive jackals away]: Aceval 2005, No. 126:145-146.

Melanesia. Pentecost.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Lhota; rengma.

Malaysiaâ€"Indonesia. Central Flores; East Sumba; East Timor.

Turkestan. Kazakhs.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Altaians; Shors; Khakas.

Subarctic. Inner Tlingit; Chipewayan; Taltan.

NW Coast. Tlingit; Hyda; Tsimshian.

The coast is the Plateau. Quarry; shuswap; Puget Sound; upper chehalis; cowlitz; clackamas; yakima; clamath; modoc; tillamook; ne perse ; clickit.

The Midwest. Menominee; Northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake); Ojibwa; Fox.

Northeast. Montagnier; seneca.

Plains. Assiniboine; crowe; comanche.

California. Atsugevi; yana; kawaiisu.

Big Pool. Northern Payut; Northern and Western Shoshones; Goshiyute; Utah; Chemewevi; Cahuilla.

The Great Southwest. Western Ceres (Laguna).

The Southern Cone. Araucans; Puelches; Northern Tehuelches; Southern Tehuelches.