m136d

Motif

Name_eng:

The air castles

Description:

A person plans to turn his (future) possessions into a great wealth (milk, eggs, small money, animal to be killed, etc.) but imagining this wealth, he destroys what he already has (eggs are broken, the animal runs away, etc.). Or two persons are involved into quarrel about possessions that they do not yet have

Name_rus:

Разрушенные мечтания

Description_rus:

Человек мечтает о том, как понемногу разбогатеет и начинает действовать так, будто это уже произошло. В результате он лишается начального источника будущего благополучия (разбивает кувшин, пугает зайца, которого собрался подстрелить, и т.п.) либо бессмысленно наносит ущерб себе или другим

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:

1430

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
5.3.2.5	Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
5.3.2.3	Arabs of Iraq
5.3.2.6	Arabs of Kuwait, Bahrein, Qatar, Emirates, Oman,
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.3.2.1	Aramaic (Syrians)
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.6.2.14	Bengali, Maithili
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
3.3.1.3	Catalan
6.2.1.1	Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
10.2.2.1	Chinese folklore: Anhui, Jiangxi and data without precise provinience (incl Hakka, Min Dong)
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)
4.2.1.3	Danes
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
4.1.4.1	Early Russian written sources
3.3.4.4	England
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.3.1	Finns
3.3.5.2	Frisians
5.2.1.1	Georgians
6.1.2.3	Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
5.4.2.4	Highland Tajik
5.6.2.2	Himachali-Pahari (Western Pahari)
5.6.2.1	Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
4.2.1.5	Icelanders
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
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
10.3.2.1	Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu
3.1.3.2	Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
5.5.1.2	Kara Kalpak
4.2.3.2	Karelians
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
10.2.4.1	Koreans; Goguryeo
5.6.2.19	Kumaoni (Central Pahari), incl. Garhwali
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
2.1.1.1	Malagasy
5.6.3.2	Malayali; Kannikaran
3.3.2.5	Maltese
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
3.1.3.5	Morocco Arabs
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
5.6.2.18	Oriya (incl. Dom/Domba/Dombo, Ghasi, Bhat and other Oriya-speaking castes of Odisha)
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
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)
6.1.1.1	Santali, Turi, Mahli
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.3.2.2	Sicily
5.6.2.17	Sinhalese; Vedda
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
3.3.1.1	Spain
4.2.1.4	Swedes
5.6.3.4	Tamil, Muthuvan, Marvar
5.6.3.1	Telugu (incl. Yanadi, Chenchu)
3.5.3.3	Transylvanian Saksons
3.1.3.7	Tunisia Arabs
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.2.3.3	Vepsians
4.2.4.1	Votians
5.3.3.1	Yemen