m138

Motif

Name_eng:

Human and animal life spans are readjusted

Description:

God originally gives 20 or 30 years to everybody. Some animals refuse some of their years because of their sufferings. Man wants to have more years and takes them from the animals

Name_rus:

Срок жизни людей и животных

Description_rus:

Вначале всем было отпущено 20 или 30 лет. Для животных это много, для человека – мало. Человек получил часть срока жизни животных

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:

173

Stith Thompson ID:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.3.5.11	Mandingo (Manden, incl San, Samo), Kagoro, Bambara (Bamana), Malinke, Kassonke, Diula
3.1.3.3	Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.1.4	Aragon
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
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
3.3.5.4	Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
3.4.1.1	Ancient Greece
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.2.3	Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.1.5.2	Nogai
5.2.2.5	Kurds
5.4.2.8	Uzbek
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.6.2.19	Kumaoni (Central Pahari), incl. Garhwali
5.6.2.22	Dogri
9.1.1.1	Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
9.1.5.2	Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)
9.10.1.1	Nanai