m199


Motif

Motif code: 
m199
Name_eng: 
Squeezing the (supposed) stone
Description: 

A man or a weak animal and an ogre (giant, devil) have a contest to see which of them can squeeze a stone. The man squeezes a cheese (egg, turnip) and thus intimidates the ogre

Name_rus: 
Выжать воду из камня
Description_rus: 
Человек и великан (черт, хищник) договариваются испытать свою силу, раздавив камень. Человек давит кусок сыра, яйцо и т.п., великан верит, что перед ним силач
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: 
90
ATU ID: 
1060

Linked traditions:
Yemen
Arabs of Libya
Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
Morocco Arabs
Algeria Arabs
Northern Naga: Konyak (incl. Tangsa), Lungshang, Wancho, Nokte, Moclum, Lunshan, Chang, Maring, Naga of Myanmar
Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
Ireland
Scotland
Spain
Basques
Catalan
Maltese
Sicily
Sardinia, Corsica
Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
French (northern France)
Dutch, Flemish
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
Poles
Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
Czech
Slovakians
Hungarians
Greeks (modern)
Bulgarians
Bosnia Muslims
Slovenians
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Albanians
Lithuanians
Latvians
Livonians
Estonians
Votians
Finns
Karelians
Vepsians
Western Sami
Norwegians
Swedes
Danes
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
Byelarusians
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)
Uzbek
Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi
Baluch
Persians
Abaza (Abazins)
Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
Abkhaz
Karachays, Balkar
Laks
Avar, Andi, Akhvakh
Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz
Georgians
Armenians
Kalmyk
Crimea Tatars, Karaims
Crimea Tatars, Karaims
Anatolia Turks
Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
Kurds
Talysh
Kazakh
Kirghiz
Turkmen
Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
Bashkirs
Mari (Cheremis)
Chuvash
Udmurt
Mongols (Khalkha)
Daur (Daghur)
Tuvinians of Tuva
Mongols of Inner Mongolia
Galicians
Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
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)
Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
Frisians
Transylvanian Saksons
Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
Eastern Prussia

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