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Motif
Name_eng:
A crab wins thanks to his smartness
Description:
Being smart and witty, the crab overcomes strong adversaries
Name_rus:
Рак – хитрец-победитель
Description_rus:
Рак (краб) обманывает сильных противников с помощью хитрости
Motif type:
Adventures and tricks
Motif group:
09 Identification of protagonists of the stories with particular animals or persons with particular qualities
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:
27
Linked traditions:
Areal ID
Tradition
5.2.2.3
Anatolia Turks
5.2.2.1
Armenians
3.5.2.3
Bosnia Muslims
4.1.2.5
Byelarusians
4.2.1.3
Danes
4.2.4.2
Estonians
4.2.3.1
Finns
3.3.5.5
Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.5.1.1
Greeks (modern)
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)
4.3.1.1
Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
10.2.4.1
Koreans; Goguryeo
4.2.5.1
Latvians
4.2.5.2
Lithuanians
6.4.3.7
Mentawai
7.2.4.2
Palau (Western Carolines)
4.1.1.1
Poles
7.2.5.5
Ponape, Ngaik, Mwoakil (Mokil), Kusaie (Kosrae)
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)
4.1.3.6
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)
4.2.1.4
Swedes
7.2.5.4
Truk, Eastern Fayu, Losap, Pulap, Puluwat, Mortlock (incl. Satawan)
4.1.2.1
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
7.2.4.3
Yap
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Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
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k38b3c
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
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m187c
Shared traditions: 22 All traditions: 32 Weight: 688
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k100i
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
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m45b
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
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c32
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif:
b125a
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
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l133
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
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m201
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
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k56a4e
Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 14 Weight: 571
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f57
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
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m187a
Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 14 Weight: 571
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a32m
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
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k149
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 9 Weight: 556
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m38c3
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 9 Weight: 556
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n16
Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 13 Weight: 538
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m157a5
Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 17 Weight: 529
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l132
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif:
k107e1
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500