m114b1

Motif

Name_eng:

What is the fattest, sweetest, swiftest?

Description:

Answering to a question what is the fatties, sweetest, swiftest, etc., the clever person names abstract notions and non-material values (and a fool names particular objects or creatures)

Name_rus:

Что самое жирное, сладкое, быстрое?

Description_rus:

Отвечая на вопрос, что самое сладкое (жирное, быстрое и т.п.), умный называет абстрактные понятия и сущности (а глупец – конкретные предметы или существа)

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Akhvakh
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
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
1.4.3.9	Don Cossaks
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
3.3.5.3	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
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
5.1.6.1	Ingush
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
5.1.7.4	Laks
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.4.4	Livonians
4.2.4.5	Lutsi (Ludza)
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
3.1.3.5	Morocco Arabs
5.6.2.18	Oriya (incl. Dom/Domba/Dombo, Ghasi, Bhat and other Oriya-speaking castes of Odisha)
5.4.2.1	Persians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
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
4.1.3.3	Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
3.3.4.3	Scotland
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
9.1.2.1	Shor
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
3.5.3.3	Transylvanian Saksons
4.1.2.3	Ukrainians: Northern dialects
5.5.2.1	Uyghur