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Motif

Name_eng:

The turtle (toad, frog) is a tricky failure

Description:

A turtle (tortoise, toad, frog) behaves foolishly creating serious problems for himself

Name_rus:

Черепаха, жаба, лягушка – трикстер-неудачник

Description_rus:

Черепаха (жаба, лягушка) попадает в неприятные ситуации из-за собственной глупости или неосторожности

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

09 Identification of protagonists of the stories with particular animals or persons with particular qualities

Motif analysis result:

2. Only those motifs that are found in America (including the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans)

3. Only those motifs that are found in Central and South America

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.4.3.3	Acoli (Acholi), Lur (Alur, Luri), Lango
3.5.2.1	Albanians
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
6.2.1.1	Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
9.3.1.1	Central Yakuts (Sakha)
10.2.2.1	Chinese folklore: Anhui, Jiangxi and data without precise provinience (incl Hakka, Min Dong)
14.3.1.1	Choco: Embera, Nonama (Waunana), XVI century Dabaiba, pre-Columbian iconography of Sinu
14.1.4.7	Chontal
14.1.5.4	Chorti
1.2.4.1	Congo (Koongo, Bacongo; incl Vili, Fioti, (Ma)Yombe, MuKunyi), Ndombo, Luango (Loango), Zombo (Sambo), Laadi (Laari), (Ba)Fioti, Woyo (Kiwoyo)
4.1.1.4	Czech
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
4.1.4.1	Early Russian written sources
4.2.4.2	Estonians
6.4.8.3	Flores, incl Mangarai (Western Flores), Nage, Keo, Riung, Ngada or Nad'a (Central Flores), Sika (Eastern Flores)
5.2.1.1	Georgians
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
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
14.3.3.1	Guajiro
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
1.3.1.4	Igbo (Ibo); Isoko, Urhobo
1.2.2.4	Ila (Baila)
5.6.1.1	Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
10.3.2.1	Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu
5.5.1.2	Kara Kalpak
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
14.4.3.2	Kechua-speaking communities of Apurimac, Cuzco, Arequipa, Puno departments; Spanish sources of XVI-XVII centuries; Callawaya (Kechua with Pukina substratum)
14.1.6.3	Kekchi; Mopan
6.3.2.1	Khmer
3.3.2.5	Maltese
15.4.1.1	Manao, Katawishi (Teffé lake); groups of uncertain affiliation mostly from Rio Jamunda
6.2.1.2	NE Tibetans (Amdo)
12.3.6.2	Nez Perce
5.6.2.18	Oriya (incl. Dom/Domba/Dombo, Ghasi, Bhat and other Oriya-speaking castes of Odisha)
14.1.7.2	Quiche, Achí, Cakchiquel, Pocomchi, Pocomam
1.2.4.2	Sakata
5.6.2.17	Sinhalese; Vedda
15.4.4.1	Tenetehara
14.1.4.5	Tequistlatec
6.3.1.4	Thai of Thailand
14.1.7.3	Tojolabal, Chuj, Jacalteca, Kanjobal, Mocho (incl Tuzantec), Acatec
1.2.1.3	Tswana (Chwana), Suto (Soto; incl Pedi, Mbire)
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
14.1.5.2	Tzeltal
6.3.2.10	Viet, Muong
15.2.2.1	Warao
12.4.3.5	Western Swampy Cree (incl. Rock Cree)
1.3.5.18	Wolof
15.3.7.2	Yagua
1.3.1.5	Yoruba; incl Ife), Nupe, Bini (Edo), Engenni, Chamba, Dakka, Kukuruku
14.1.4.8	Zoque; Izapa iconography (I millennium BC)