m207

Motif

Name_eng:

The mouse in the jug

Description:

A poor married couple (a poor man) bemoans life’s harshness and blame Adam and Eve who through their disobedience and curiosity brought sin into the world. A powerful person hears their complaint and put them into the place where they can live in luxury. He stipulates only that they must not break certain taboo (usually to open a covered vessel). They break taboo and are returned to their old way of life

Name_rus:

Мышонок в миске

Description_rus:

Бедняки винят Адама и Еву в своих несчастьях. Властный персонаж предоставляет им возможность жить безбедно с условием не нарушать определенный запрет (обычно не открывать какой-то сосуд). Они не в силах противостоять соблазну после чего возвращены в свое прежнее состояние

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:

1416

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.5.2.1	Albanians
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
3.5.2.3	Bosnia Muslims
3.3.3.1	Bretagne
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.2.1.3	Danes
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
3.3.4.4	England
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.3.1	Finns
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
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
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
3.3.4.1	Ireland
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
3.3.3.5	Occitanie (southern France): Limousin, Auvergne, Provence, Aquitaine, Albret, Gers, Aveyron (Rouerge), Armagnac, Landes, Gascogne, Vivarés, Roussillon, Pyrénées, Bearne, Guyenne, Bigorre, Ain, Hautes Alpes, Ariège, Vienne, Aude, French part of Swiss
4.1.1.1	Poles
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
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)
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
3.3.1.1	Spain
4.2.1.4	Swedes
5.1.8.1	Terek Cossacks
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
3.3.3.4	Upper Brittany
4.2.3.3	Vepsians
4.2.2.1	Western Sami