m39a4a

Motif

Name_eng:

Fool’s customer is an animal or an object

Description:

A fool gives meat, a domestic animal, cloth etc. to an animal (plant, inanimate object) and thinks that the latter will pay him later or asks an animal to do some work. Claiming money or products of the work, he finds treasure

Name_rus:

Продажа имущества предмету или животному

Description_rus:

Дурак оставляет животному (птице, растению, предмету, объекту) мясо, домашнее животное, ткань и т.п., полагая, что те заплатят, либо просит животное поработать за него; требуя деньги или результат работы, находит клад

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:

1643

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.4.2.5	Baluch
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
3.1.3.3	Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
3.1.3.3	Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
3.5.2.3	Bosnia Muslims
3.3.3.1	Bretagne
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
3.3.1.3	Catalan
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
3.5.2.4	Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.2.1.3	Danes
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.3.1	Finns
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.3.1.6	Galicians
5.2.1.1	Georgians
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)
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
3.3.4.1	Ireland
3.3.2.6	Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
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.)
5.6.3.3	Kannada, Lingayat, Halakki
4.2.3.2	Karelians
5.2.2.5	Kurds
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.2.4.4	Livonians
3.3.2.5	Maltese
5.2.1.2	Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
3.1.3.5	Morocco Arabs
5.4.2.1	Persians
4.1.1.1	Poles
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.3.5	Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
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
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.3.2.2	Sicily
3.3.2.2	Sicily
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
3.3.1.1	Spain
5.4.2.3	Tajik
3.5.3.3	Transylvanian Saksons
3.1.3.7	Tunisia Arabs
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
3.3.3.4	Upper Brittany
5.4.2.8	Uzbek
4.2.3.3	Vepsians
3.3.3.3	Wallons, Picardie
3.1.3.4	Western Sahara and Mauritania Arabs; Berbers of Mauritania (Zénaga)
4.2.2.1	Western Sami
5.3.3.1	Yemen