m39a6h

Motif

Name_eng:

Plucking geese

Description:

King asks a commoner to pluck (skin, milk, cut) a goose (geese, other birds, animals) that he sends him. The commoner understands correctly that he is allowed to fleece a courtier

Name_rus:

Ощипать гуся

Description_rus:

Царь велит простолюдину ощипать гуся (гусей, остричь барана и т.п.). Тот понимает правильно: обобрать визиря

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:

921F*

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.5.2.1	Albanians
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
5.3.2.3	Arabs of Iraq
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
1.4.1.2	Arabs of Sudan
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
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
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
3.5.2.4	Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
3.5.4.1	Gagauz
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
3.3.5.4	Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
4.2.3.2	Karelians
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
5.1.5.3	Kumyk, Terekemen
5.2.2.5	Kurds
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
5.4.2.1	Persians
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
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
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
3.3.1.1	Spain
1.2.5.12	Swahili, Midjikenda (incl Giryama), Nyika, Duruma; Ngindo, Kiluguru and other Islamic groups of the Eastern Coast of Africa
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
5.5.2.1	Uyghur
5.4.2.8	Uzbek