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Motif

Name_eng:

Strange names of the babies

Description:

An animal person pretends to be invited to be godfather or he gives names to different places along which he travels in a sledge, boat, etc. The names look strange but become understandable when other people or animals get to know that their companion has devoured all the supplies

Name_rus:

Странные имена новорожденных

Description_rus:

Персонаж несколько раз делает вид, будто его зовут в гости в связи с рождением ребенка, либо дает названия различным урочищам, мимо которых едет или проплывает. Имена и названия звучат странно, но становятся понятны, когда выясняется, что персонаж поедал запасы

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:

*15

Stith Thompson ID:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
5.1.3.2	Abaza (Abazins)
3.5.2.1	Albanians
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Akhvakh
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
9.3.2.3	Baikal RegionTungus/Evenki
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
3.1.3.3	Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
3.3.1.3	Catalan
9.3.1.1	Central Yakuts (Sakha)
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
9.1.2.3	Chulym Turks
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
1.2.4.1	Congo (Koongo, Bacongo; incl Vili, Fioti, (Ma)Yombe, MuKunyi), Ndombo, Luango (Loango), Zombo (Sambo), Laadi (Laari), (Ba)Fioti, Woyo (Kiwoyo)
3.5.2.4	Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
4.2.1.3	Danes
5.1.7.2	Dido (Tsez), Hunsib, Khvarshi
9.3.1.2	Dolgans
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
9.2.1.2	Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.3.4.1	Evens (Lamuts)
4.2.1.6	Faroe Islands
4.2.3.1	Finns
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.3.5.2	Frisians
5.2.1.1	Georgians
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
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)
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
4.2.1.5	Icelanders
9.3.2.4	Ilimpii Tungus/Evenki
3.3.4.1	Ireland
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.1.3.2	Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
4.2.3.2	Karelians
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
5.1.5.3	Kumyk, Terekemen
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.2.4.4	Livonians
4.2.4.5	Lutsi (Ludza)
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
9.2.1.1	Mansi
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
3.1.3.5	Morocco Arabs
9.10.1.6	Negidal
9.2.1.3	Northern Khanty (Ostyaks)
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
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.3.5	Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
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)
4.1.3.4	Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
4.1.3.3	Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
3.3.4.3	Scotland
4.2.4.3	Setu
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
4.1.1.3	Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
3.3.1.1	Spain
4.2.1.4	Swedes
5.4.2.3	Tajik
9.2.3.1	Tundra Nenets
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.3	Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.2.3.3	Vepsians
4.2.4.1	Votians
3.3.3.3	Wallons, Picardie
4.2.2.1	Western Sami
9.3.2.5	Yerbogachen Tungus/Evenki