m157a4


Motif

Motif code: 
m157a4
Name_eng: 
To fish on a hill
Description: 

Person demonstrates the absurdity of the claims of another person saying that he (or somebody else) was fishing on a hill, putting out a fire spilling straw, looking how the fish fly etc. or he is imitating such an activity. Either the place chosen for the activity or the means are irrational

Name_rus: 
Ловить рыбу на горе
Description_rus: 
Персонаж доказывает абсурдность заявлений другого, утверждая, что он (или кто-то другой) ловил рыбу на горе, тушил соломой пожар, сеял пшеницу в море, наблюдал за летавшими рыбами и т.п. (либо он сам имитирует подобные действия). Абсурдность утверждений следует из неправильно выбранного локуса или средств для совершения определенных действий
Motif analysis result tradition count all: 
71

Linked traditions:
Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
Tunisia Arabs
Saho, Afar
Omotic: Ari (incl Baka, Male, Schangama, Ubamer), Kafa, Dime, Banna, Basketo, Nao
Burmese, Intha
Khmer
Wa (incl Kawa), Bulang
Viet, Muong
Northern Munda of Kharwar branch: Birhor, Ho, Mundari, Kol, Asur (including Agaria, Kol, Birjhia), Bhumij
Kachin (Jingpho), Chak, Maru
Oraon (Kurukh)
Kond (Khond, Kondh; language is Kui, incl Kuttia, Konda-Dora), Koya; Pengo
Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)
Nilgiri Hills: Toda, Kota, Kurumba (Kuruba), Badaga, Maravar, Pulaya, Adiya, Kadar, Irula
Sindhi
Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
Assamese
Sinhalese; Vedda
Chinese folklore: Anhui, Jiangxi and data without precise provinience (incl Hakka, Min Dong)
Ireland
Spain
Portuguese
Basques
Catalan
Sicily
Bretagne
French (northern France)
Dutch, Flemish
Czech
Slovakians
Hungarians
Bulgarians
Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Lithuanians
Estonians
Setu
Finns
Karelians
Western Sami
Swedes
Danes
Danes
Byelarusians
Persians
Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
Abkhaz
Karachays, Balkar
Ossetians
Ingush
Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi
Georgians
Armenians
Kalmyk
Anatolia Turks
Kurds
Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
Chuvash
Siberian Tatars
Oriya (incl. Dom/Domba/Dombo, Ghasi, Bhat and other Oriya-speaking castes of Odisha)
Kumaoni (Central Pahari), incl. Garhwali
Galicians
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
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)
Frisians
Transylvanian Saksons
Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
Eastern Prussia

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