m136e

Motif

Name_eng:

It is good that pumpkins do not grow on a big tree (St. Peter and the nuts)

Description:

A man complains that large trees have small fruits. When an acorn (nut, pear) falls on his head, he understands the order of the natural phenomena

Name_rus:

Хорошо, что тыквы не растут на деревьях

Description_rus:

Человек задается вопросом, почему на большом дереве не растут пропорционально большие плоды. На него падает каштан (желудь, груша) и теперь он рад, что это была не тыква

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:

774P

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.3.2.8	Italians: Northeast (Trentino – Alto Adige, Veneto, Venezia Giulia, Southern Tirol, Friuli)
3.3.5.2	Frisians
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
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.3.2.4	Saudi Arabia
5.4.2.1	Persians