m149

Motif

Name_eng:

Tell them that I am a stump

Description:

Strong antagonist is going to kill the hero (a person or a weak animal). Another person or animal pretends not to know about the situation and tells that the antagonist is in search to be killed. The hero is saved. Usually the latter asks the man not to give him out and answer that it is a stump, a log and the like near him. This opens possibility to treat the antagonist as a corresponding object (to cut it with an axe, to tie up, etc.)

Name_rus:

Скажи, что я пень

Description_rus:

Сильный противник готов убить героя (человека либо слабое животное). Некто, как бы не зная об этом, громко говорит, что противника героя разыскивают, чтобы убить. Герой спасен. Обычно противник просит не выдавать его, говорить, что он пень, бревно и т.п. Это позволяет поступать с ним как с соответствующими предметами – бросать, рубить и т.п.

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
5.1.3.2	Abaza (Abazins)
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Akhvakh
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.4.2.5	Baluch
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
3.3.1.5	Basques
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
3.3.1.3	Catalan
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
10.2.2.1	Chinese folklore: Anhui, Jiangxi and data without precise provinience (incl Hakka, Min Dong)
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.3.1	Finns
5.2.1.1	Georgians
6.1.2.3	Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
3.1.3.2	Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
9.1.2.2	Khakas
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
10.2.3.5	Meo (Hmong) of Thailand, Laos and Northern Vietnam
9.1.5.3	Mongols (Khalkha)
9.1.5.7	Mongols of Inner Mongolia
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
6.1.2.1	Oraon (Kurukh)
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.4.2.1	Persians
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
4.1.3.6	Russians: Southern part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Belgorod, Voronezh, Tambov, Penza, Lipetsk, Orel, Kursk, Bryansk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Samara, Simbirsk and Saratov provinces)
5.1.7.6	Rutul, Tsakhur
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
4.2.4.3	Setu
9.1.1.1	Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
3.3.1.1	Spain
5.4.2.3	Tajik
3.5.3.3	Transylvanian Saksons
3.1.3.7	Tunisia Arabs
9.1.3.1	Tuvinians of Tuva
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.3	Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
5.5.2.1	Uyghur
4.2.3.3	Vepsians
5.4.3.1	Yagnobi
5.4.3.3	Yazgulami