m198


Motif

Name_eng: 
Wise brothers (the king is bastard)
Description: 

When three brothers (rare: a person) are Invited to khan (judge, king, etc.) and served delicious food, they claim that the food and drink have a taste (smell) of a corpse, dog, goat etc. and/or their host is of a low descent or a bastard. Investigation confirms that their deduction was correct

Name_rus: 
Умные братья (незаконнорожденный хан)
Description_rus: 
В доме у хана (судьи, царя и т.п.) трое братьев (редко – один человек) определяют, что поданные им еда и напитки пахнут мертвечиной, собачиной, козлом и т.п., а (или, что) принимающий их хозяин – незаконнорожденный или незнатного происхождения. Расспросив слуг и мать, хозяин убеждается в правоте братьев
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: 
83
ATU ID: 
655

Linked traditions:
Areal IDTradition
1.2.5.12Swahili, Midjikenda (incl Giryama), Nyika, Duruma; Ngindo, Kiluguru and other Islamic groups of the Eastern Coast of Africa
1.3.2.1Hausa
1.3.5.11Mandingo (Manden, incl San, Samo), Kagoro, Bambara (Bamana), Malinke, Kassonke, Diula
1.4.1.2Arabs of Sudan
10.2.4.1Koreans; Goguryeo
3.1.2.1Arabs of Egypt
3.1.3.2Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
3.1.3.3Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
3.1.3.5Morocco Arabs
3.1.3.6Algeria Arabs
3.1.3.7Tunisia Arabs
3.3.1.2Portuguese
3.3.1.3Catalan
3.3.2.4Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
3.5.1.1Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2Bulgarians
3.5.1.3Macedonians
3.5.1.5Byzantine literature
3.5.2.1Albanians
3.5.2.3Bosnia Muslims
3.5.3.1Hungarians
3.5.3.2Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.1.1Poles
4.1.1.1Poles
4.1.2.4Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.2.1.1Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia)
4.2.1.2Norwegians
4.2.1.3Danes
4.2.3.1Finns
4.2.4.2Estonians
4.3.1.2Udmurt
4.3.3.1Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2Bashkirs
5.1.1.1Kalmyk
5.1.2.1Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.1.3.2Abaza (Abazins)
5.1.3.3Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.4.1Karachays, Balkar
5.1.4.2Ossetians
5.1.6.1Ingush
5.1.7.1Avar, Andi, Karata, Akhvakh
5.1.7.3Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi
5.1.7.9Tats
5.2.1.1Georgians
5.2.1.1Georgians
5.2.2.1Armenians
5.2.2.2Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.2.2.3Anatolia Turks
5.2.2.5Kurds
5.3.2.1Aramaic (Syrians)
5.3.2.2Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.3.2.6Arabs of Kuwait, Bahrein, Qatar, Emirates, Oman,
5.3.3.1Yemen
5.3.3.3Soqotri
5.4.2.1Persians
5.4.2.10Turkmen
5.4.2.11Luri, Bakhtiari
5.4.2.14Farsiwans
5.4.2.3Tajik
5.4.2.6Pashto
5.4.2.8Uzbek
5.4.3.2Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi
5.4.3.3Yazgulami
5.4.4.2Dards (Kalash, Kho, Kohistani, Shina, Pashai)
5.4.4.3Burusho (Hunza)
5.5.1.1Kazakh
5.5.1.3Kirghiz
5.5.2.1Uyghur
5.6.1.1Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
5.6.2.10Sindhi
5.6.2.12Marathi (incl. Bhamta; incl. Mumbai area)
5.6.2.13Rajasthani (Radjasthan and Madhya Pradesh)
5.6.2.14Bengali, Maithili
5.6.2.18Oriya (incl. Dom/Domba/Dombo, Ghasi, Bhat and other Oriya-speaking castes of Odisha)
5.6.2.19Kumaoni (Central Pahari), incl. Garhwali
5.6.2.2Himachali-Pahari (Western Pahari)
5.6.2.9Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
5.6.3.4Tamil, Muthuvan, Marvar
9.1.2.1Shor
9.1.3.1Tuvinians of Tuva
9.1.4.1Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
9.1.5.3Mongols (Khalkha)
9.1.5.7Mongols of Inner Mongolia

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Motif: k167b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: m90a3 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 7 Weight: 1000
Motif: i92a Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 9 Weight: 1000
Motif: k38f3 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 2 Weight: 1000
Motif: m114f Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 6 Weight: 1000
Motif: c32 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: m39a5a2 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 6 Weight: 1000
Motif: k129a Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 6 Weight: 1000
Motif: m39a2e Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: l40c Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: k180 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif: i82e Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: m39a4d Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif: k27q1 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif: l93d Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif: l15f Shared traditions: 12 All traditions: 13 Weight: 923
Motif: m198a Shared traditions: 55 All traditions: 60 Weight: 917