m39d

Motif

Name_eng:

Series of clever unjust decisions

Description:

In succession and unintentionally a man causes a series of accedents. The injured parties bring him before a judge. In each case the judge makes decisions that are formally logical but patently unacceptable and saves the man

Name_rus:

Шемякин суд

Description_rus:

Человек последовательно и непредумышленно наносит урон другим. Пострадавшие ведут его к судье. Тот спасает человека от наказания, вынося в отношении каждого дела формально логичное, но явно неприемлемое решение

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:

ATU ID:

1534

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs
3.2.2.1	Amhara; Zay, Harari; Silte, Gogot
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
5.3.2.3	Arabs of Iraq
5.3.2.6	Arabs of Kuwait, Bahrein, Qatar, Emirates, Oman,
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
1.4.1.2	Arabs of Sudan
5.3.2.1	Aramaic (Syrians)
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Akhvakh
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Akhvakh
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
3.1.3.3	Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
3.3.1.3	Catalan
6.2.1.1	Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
3.5.2.4	Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
4.2.1.3	Danes
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
4.1.4.1	Early Russian written sources
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.3.1	Finns
3.3.5.3	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
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
1.3.2.1	Hausa
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
5.1.6.1	Ingush
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.1.3.2	Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
6.3.1.9	Khamti, Ahom
6.3.2.1	Khmer
5.1.5.3	Kumyk, Terekemen
5.2.2.5	Kurds
5.1.7.4	Laks
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.4.4	Livonians
5.4.2.11	Luri, Bakhtiari
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
3.3.2.5	Maltese
3.1.3.5	Morocco Arabs
5.4.2.1	Persians
4.1.1.1	Poles
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
5.6.2.9	Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.3.7	Russian Pomors ("seasiders"): Lower Pechora
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.1.3.1	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)
4.1.3.4	Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
4.1.3.3	Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
3.3.2.3	Sardinia, Corsica
5.3.2.4	Saudi Arabia
3.3.2.2	Sicily
5.6.2.10	Sindhi
3.3.1.1	Spain
5.4.2.3	Tajik
3.1.3.7	Tunisia Arabs
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.3	Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
5.3.3.1	Yemen