k18d

Motif

Name_eng:

A lazy boy and a fish

Description:

A lazy (stupid) boy releases a fish (frog, serpent, supernatural being) which gives him a power of making all his wishes come true; he marries a princess

Name_rus:

По щучьему веленью

Description_rus:

Юноша отпустил рыбу (лягушку, змею, сверхъестественное существо), она выполняет его желанья и он женится на принцессе

Motif type:

Adventures and tricks

Motif group:

10 Adventures

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.5.2.1	Albanians
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.2.2.1	Armenians
3.3.1.5	Basques
3.3.3.1	Bretagne
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
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
4.2.2.2	Eastern Sami (including Inari, Skolts)
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.1.6	Faroe Islands
4.2.3.1	Finns
3.3.5.2	Frisians
5.2.1.1	Georgians
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
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
3.3.2.6	Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
3.3.2.1	Italians: Northern (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Southern Tirol, Emilia–Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino–Alto Adige)
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
6.2.4.1	Kachin (Jingpho), Chak, Maru
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.2.4.5	Lutsi (Ludza)
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
4.1.1.1	Poles
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
3.3.2.4	Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
5.4.3.2	Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi
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
4.1.3.6	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)
3.3.2.3	Sardinia, Corsica
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
4.2.4.3	Setu
9.1.1.4	Siberian Tatars
3.3.2.2	Sicily
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
3.3.1.1	Spain
4.2.1.4	Swedes
5.1.8.1	Terek Cossacks
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
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
4.2.3.3	Vepsians
4.2.2.1	Western Sami