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Motif

Name_eng:

A man makes believe that he is going to bring an entire well

Description:

An ogre sends a man to bring water giving him an enormous skin. The man is unable to carry such an amount of water but does not reveal his weakness using a ruse (he is digging around the well and explains that he wants to carry all the water at once; or says that he brought the skin with the water but drank it already up, etc.)

Name_rus:

Окапывает колодец

Description_rus:

Великан посылает человека за водой, дав с собой огромный бурдюк. Тот не может поднять столько воды, но выходит из положения с помощью хитрости (делает вид, что хочет принести сразу весь колодец; что уже принес воду и сам же всю выпил и т.п.)

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:

1049

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.1.3.2	Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.2.1	Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)
3.3.2.2	Sicily
3.3.2.8	Italians: Northeast (Trentino – Alto Adige, Veneto, Venezia Giulia, Southern Tirol, Friuli, Istria)
3.3.3.1	Bretagne
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
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)
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
3.5.2.1	Albanians
3.5.2.3	Bosnia Muslims
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
3.5.3.3	Transylvanian Saksons
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.1.3.6	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)
4.2.1.4	Swedes
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.3.3	Vepsians
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.1.3.2	Abaza (Abazins)
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
5.1.5.1	Stavropol Turkmen (recent migrants from Mangyshlak Peninsular)
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Karata, Akhvakh
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.2.2.5	Kurds
5.2.2.6	Zaza (western Kurds)
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
9.1.3.1	Tuvinians of Tuva
9.1.5.3	Mongols (Khalkha)
9.1.5.7	Mongols of Inner Mongolia