m163

Motif

Name_eng:

The precious cat

Description:

Person gets to a country where rats or mice are a plague and receives a fortune selling a cat

Name_rus:

Дорогая кошка

Description_rus:

Человек попадает в страну, где много мышей (крыс, змей), но нет кошек. Он продает там кошку, получает награду

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:

1281, 1651

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
3.3.1.4	Aragon
5.3.2.1	Aramaic (Syrians)
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
3.5.2.3	Bosnia Muslims
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.5.2.4	Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
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
3.3.5.2	Frisians
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
3.3.5.4	Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
4.2.1.5	Icelanders
3.3.4.1	Ireland
3.3.2.6	Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
3.3.2.1	Italians: Northern (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Southern Tirol, Emilia–Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino–Alto Adige)
5.5.1.2	Kara Kalpak
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
4.2.3.2	Karelians
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
5.1.7.4	Laks
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.2.4.4	Livonians
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
1.3.5.11	Mandingo (Manden, incl San, Samo), Kagoro, Bambara (Bamana), Malinke, Kassonke, Diula
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
6.4.6.1	Minahasa (incl. Tondano, Tentemboan), Bantik
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
3.1.3.5	Morocco Arabs
5.1.5.2	Nogai
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
5.6.2.18	Oriya (incl. Dom/Domba/Dombo, Ghasi, Bhat and other Oriya-speaking castes of Odisha)
5.4.2.1	Persians
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)
4.1.3.3	Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
3.2.1.2	Saho, Afar
5.4.3.4	Sarikoli
3.3.4.3	Scotland
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
4.2.4.3	Setu
3.3.2.2	Sicily
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
3.3.1.1	Spain
4.2.1.4	Swedes
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.3	Ukrainians: Northern dialects
3.3.3.4	Upper Brittany
5.4.2.8	Uzbek
4.2.3.3	Vepsians
3.3.3.3	Wallons, Picardie
4.2.2.1	Western Sami
5.4.3.3	Yazgulami