m39a6i

Motif

Name_eng:

Answer betraying a theft

Description:

Person asks a servant to bring another some food or object and to pass certain words which for the servant have no meaning. Hearing these words, the recipient understands that the servant had appropriated part of what he had to bring

Name_rus:

Посланный утаил часть посланного

Description_rus:

Человек посылает другому еду или вещи и велит посланнику передать получателю некие слова, смысл которых посланник не понимает. По дороге он похитил или съел часть того, что должен был принести. Из слов посланника получатель понимает, что было передано, и уличает того в воровстве

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:

875a

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
3.5.2.1	Albanians
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)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.4.4.2	Dards (Kalash, Kho, Kohistani, Shina, Pashai)
3.5.4.1	Gagauz
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
5.1.6.1	Ingush
3.3.2.6	Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
3.1.3.2	Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
5.6.2.8	Kashmiri
5.2.2.5	Kurds
5.4.2.11	Luri, Bakhtiari
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
3.3.2.5	Maltese
3.1.3.5	Morocco Arabs
5.4.2.6	Pashto
4.1.1.1	Poles
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
5.5.2.5	Salars
3.3.2.3	Sardinia, Corsica
3.3.2.3	Sardinia, Corsica
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.3.2.2	Sicily
5.4.2.3	Tajik
3.1.3.7	Tunisia Arabs
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
5.3.3.1	Yemen