m199a

Motif

Name_eng:

Extracting brain from the earth

Description:

A man buries something half-liquid and soft (animal bowels, eggs, etc.). He stamps (shoots an arrow) at this place and claims that got to extract brains (bowels, etc.) from the earth

Name_rus:

Выжать мозг из земли

Description_rus:

Человек зарыл в землю нечто мягкое, жидкое, а когда топнул (пустил в это место стрелу) и зарытое брызнуло на поверхность, сказал, что вышиб мозг (внутренности) земли

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
5.1.5.1	Stavropol Turkmen (recent migrants from Mangyshlak Peninsular)
5.1.6.2	Chechens
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.2.2.5	Kurds
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
5.4.2.4	Highland Tajik
5.4.2.8	Uzbek
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.1.2	Kara Kalpak
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
9.1.3.1	Tuvinians of Tuva
9.1.3.2	Tuvinians of Southern Altai
9.1.5.7	Mongols of Inner Mongolia