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Motif

Name_eng:

Meat springs as toad on the face of an ungrateful son

Description:

A couple (son) intends to eat a roasted chicken (meat). When the man’s old father passes by unexpectedly, they hide the chicken in order not to share it with him. When the old man continues on his way and they replace the chicken on the table, it has turned into a toad (snake) and humps onto the son’s face where it stays until his death

Name_rus:

Мясо превращается в жабу

Description_rus:

Сын (с женой) собрался отведать мясо (курицу). В это время пришел отец и, чтобы с ним не делиться, сын спрятал мясо. Когда отец ушел и сын вынул спрятанное, мясо превратилось в жабу (змею) и прыгнуло ему на лицо

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:

980D

Stith Thompson ID:

D444.2

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.3.3.1	Bretagne
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
3.3.5.2	Frisians
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
3.3.5.6	Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
4.1.1.3	Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
4.2.5.1	Latvians