m136c

Motif

Name_eng:

The man takes seriously the prediction of death

Description:

Considering indirect signs or somebody’s word, a numskull thinks that he is dead and lies motionless

Name_rus:

Глупец принимает всерьез предсказание смерти

Description_rus:

На основании косвенных признаков или чьих-то слов глупец полагает, что умер и лежит без движения

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:

1313A

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
3.3.1.5	Basques
5.6.2.14	Bengali, Maithili
3.1.3.3	Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
3.3.3.1	Bretagne
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
6.2.1.1	Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
6.2.3.3	Chin-Naga: Ao, Mao, Sema, Zeme, Liangmai, Kolren, Kom, Lhota, Rengma, Angami, Kabui, Tangkhul, Koirenf
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
5.1.7.3	Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.3.1	Finns
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.3.5.2	Frisians
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
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
5.6.1.1	Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
3.3.4.1	Ireland
3.3.2.6	Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
4.2.3.2	Karelians
5.6.2.19	Kumaoni (Central Pahari), incl. Garhwali
4.2.5.1	Latvians
6.2.2.1	Lepcha
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.2.4.4	Livonians
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
5.4.2.6	Pashto
5.4.2.1	Persians
4.1.1.1	Poles
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
5.6.2.9	Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
3.3.2.4	Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
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)
3.3.2.3	Sardinia, Corsica
4.2.4.3	Setu
5.6.2.17	Sinhalese; Vedda
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
3.3.1.1	Spain
5.1.5.1	Stavropol Turkmen (recent migrants from Mangyshlak Peninsular)
3.1.3.7	Tunisia Arabs
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
3.3.3.4	Upper Brittany
3.3.3.3	Wallons, Picardie
5.3.3.1	Yemen