m154a

Motif

Name_eng:

A donkey induces overworked ox to feign sickness

Description:

One of domestic animals (usually the donkey) induces another who is overworked to feign sickness. When the next day he must do the work of the “sick” one, he tells that the master has decided to slaughter the one who is unable to work and persuades him to stop being ill

Name_rus:

Вол, осел и работа

Description_rus:

Одно из домашних животных (обычно осел) подговаривает другого притвориться больным. После этого советчику приходится работать за двоих. Тогда он говорит мнимому больному, будто хозяин собирается его зарезать и тот сам спешит на работу

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:

207A

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.5.2.1	Albanians
3.2.2.1	Amhara; Zay, Harari; Silte, Gogot
5.3.2.5	Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
1.4.1.2	Arabs of Sudan
5.3.2.1	Aramaic (Syrians)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.3.1.6	Galicians
6.2.3.5	Garo (Atchik), Kachari (Bodo, incl. Lalung), Dimasa, Tripuri, Riang (of Tripura), Khami, Riga, Mori
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)
5.5.2.6	Hui of Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Qinghai (rare Hui texts from Southern and Eastern China are clustered with the Chinese ones)
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
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.)
5.5.1.2	Kara Kalpak
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
1.4.1.3	Kordofan
5.2.2.5	Kurds
5.1.7.4	Laks
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
3.3.2.5	Maltese
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
3.1.3.5	Morocco Arabs
1.4.1.1	Nubians
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
5.4.2.6	Pashto
5.4.2.6	Pashto
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.6.2.9	Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
3.3.2.4	Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
3.3.2.2	Sicily
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
3.2.1.4	Somali
3.3.1.1	Spain
1.2.5.12	Swahili, Midjikenda (incl Giryama), Nyika, Duruma; Ngindo, Kiluguru and other Islamic groups of the Eastern Coast of Africa
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
3.3.3.3	Wallons, Picardie