m26a

Motif

Name_eng:

Ducks rise hunter into the air (threaded on a string)

Description:

Person catches birds by tying a bait to a string which they swallow and become tied one after another to the same string; or he immobilizes many birds with one bullet; or gives them liquor and ties to a string. Usually the birds all fly up at once and lift the man up in the air

Name_rus:

Утки уносят ловца (нанизаны на веревку)

Description_rus:

Персонаж ловит птиц, скармливая им привязанную к веревке наживку, которую они проглатывают одна за другой, либо простреливая нескольких птиц одной пулей, либо напаивая птиц допьяна и связывая. Обычно птицы взлетают и уносят держащего веревку ловца

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:

1881

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
10.3.2.1	Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.3.4.1	Ireland
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
3.3.5.2	Frisians
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
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.5.2.4	Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.2.2.1	Western Sami
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.3.3	Vepsians
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs