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Motif

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:

ATU ID:

785A

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
3.1.3.2	Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.1.4	Aragon
3.3.1.6	Galicians
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.3.4.1	Ireland
3.3.4.4	England
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
3.3.5.2	Frisians
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.2.1	Albanians
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.1.3	Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
5.1.6.2	Chechens
5.1.7.4	Laks
5.1.7.7	Tabasaran, Aghul
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.2.2.5	Kurds
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
5.6.2.8	Kashmiri
6.2.1.3	Eastern Tibetans (Kham; Sichuan, NW Yunnan)
6.3.2.1	Khmer
9.1.2.2	Khakas