m154b

Motif

Name_eng:

The man who does his wife's work

Description:

Husband remains home instead of his wife (rare: son instead of his mother) but does everything wrong so as he suffers a series of accidents

Name_rus:

Муж выполняет работу жены

Description_rus:

Муж (редко: сын) остается дома вместо жены (матери), все делает плохо и невпопад

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:

1408

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.2.2.1	Amhara; Zay, Harari; Silte, Gogot
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
6.2.2.8	Bhutan
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
3.3.1.3	Catalan
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
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
5.1.7.3	Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
4.2.2.2	Eastern Sami (including Inari, Skolts)
3.3.4.4	England
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.3.1	Finns
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.3.5.2	Frisians
3.3.1.6	Galicians
5.2.1.1	Georgians
3.3.5.6	Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
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
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
4.2.1.5	Icelanders
3.3.4.1	Ireland
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
5.2.2.5	Kurds
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.2.4.4	Livonians
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
6.3.2.5	Mon
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.1.1.1	Poles
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
3.3.2.4	Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
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
4.1.3.8	Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.1.3.6	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)
4.1.3.3	Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
4.1.1.3	Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
3.3.1.1	Spain
4.2.1.4	Swedes
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.2.3.3	Vepsians
4.2.4.1	Votians