m163a


Motif

Name_eng: 
What cats feed on?
Description: 

A man sells a cat (a cock) to the people who have never seen cats or chicken. When they get the marvellous creature they do not know what they should give it to eat and think that it eats people

Name_rus: 
Чем питаются кошки?
Description_rus: 
Человек продает кота (петуха) людям, которые не знают о кошках (или о курах). Получив кота или петуха, люди не знают, чем их кормить, и опасаются, что те едят людей
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: 
14

Linked traditions:
Areal IDTradition
3.3.1.1Spain
3.3.1.2Portuguese
3.3.1.3Catalan
3.3.1.6Galicians
3.3.5.2Frisians
3.3.5.3Germans: 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
3.5.1.2Bulgarians
4.1.1.4Czech
4.1.2.2Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.3Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.2.4.3Setu
5.2.2.3Anatolia Turks
5.3.2.1Aramaic (Syrians)
5.4.2.1Persians

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: j25a1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: i100d Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: i42g3 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 11 Weight: 545
Motif: i22g1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: m136e Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 14 Weight: 500
Motif: m60a3 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: k33c5 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: i7b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: m39a4d Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: m38d5 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 9 Weight: 444
Motif: k27z2f Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 9 Weight: 444
Motif: k27z2e Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: b33f1 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 12 Weight: 417
Motif: j47a1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: i87e Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: j32b Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 10 Weight: 400
Motif: m39a4g Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 10 Weight: 400
Motif: k80a5 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: k33c4 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375