l100g


Motif

Motif code: 
l100g
Name_eng: 
The goose with one leg
Description: 

The servant is asked to prepare a goose (chicken, etc.), eats one leg and maintains that the goose had only one leg enforcing his point by showing geese who stand on one leg. The master shoots away the geese so that they use both legs. Usually the servant replies that if he had frightened the roasted goose, it would have showed its second leg as well

Name_rus: 
Одноногий гусь
Description_rus: 
Слуга подает господину жареную птицу, у которой одна нога уже съедена. Велит посмотреть на кур, гусей и т.п., которые стоят на одной ноге. Когда те убегают, видно, что у каждого две ноги. Обычно слуга говорит, что если бы хозяин вспугнул жареного гуся, тот тоже показал бы вторую ногу
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: 
36
ATU ID: 
785A

Linked traditions:
Arabs of Egypt
Khmer
Kashmiri
Ireland
England
Spain
Portuguese
Catalan
Aragon
Dutch, Flemish
Poles
Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
Czech
Slovakians
Hungarians
Bulgarians
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Albanians
Lithuanians
Latvians
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
Tajik
Persians
Tabasaran, Aghul
Laks
Georgians
Anatolia Turks
Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
Kurds
Kirghiz
Khakas
Eastern Tibetans (Kham; Sichuan, NW Yunnan)
Chechens
Galicians
Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
Frisians

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: i100d Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: m152c Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: m136e Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 14 Weight: 714
Motif: j32b Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 10 Weight: 700
Motif: j25a1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: b108 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: k33c5 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: m39a5a2 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: l94d Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: b33f1 Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 12 Weight: 667
Motif: m39a4b1 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: m114f Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: m163a Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 14 Weight: 643
Motif: m154a1 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 10 Weight: 600
Motif: n28d Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: i87e Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: k172 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: h7b2 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 12 Weight: 583
Motif: l108d Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 12 Weight: 583