h7d


Motif

Motif code: 
h7d
Name_eng: 
The old man asks Death to help him to carry a load
Description: 

An old man has to carry a heavy load of wood. Tired and exhausted, he wishes for death. When Death appears he asks her to help him with the load

Name_rus: 
Смерть и вязанка дров
Description_rus: 
Человек призывает Смерть, а когда та приходит, просит ее помочь ему поднять вязанку дров или тащить воз с дровами
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: 
27
ATU ID: 
845

Linked traditions:
Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
Tamil, Muthuvan, Marvar
Nepali; Tharu
Ireland
French (northern France)
Dutch, Flemish
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
Czech
Hungarians
Bulgarians
Slovenians
Ancient Greece
Lithuanians
Latvians
Finns
Karelians
Uzbek
Pashto
Georgians
Bashkirs
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Early Russian written sources
Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
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)
Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
Frisians

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: m197f Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 13 Weight: 769
Motif: m199d1 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 8 Weight: 750
Motif: i137 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: b49b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: k73a2a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: k171 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 11 Weight: 636
Motif: b110a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: i87e Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: m39a4g Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 10 Weight: 600
Motif: m168a Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 19 Weight: 579
Motif: m157d Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 14 Weight: 571
Motif: f57 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
Motif: b104a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 9 Weight: 556
Motif: k56b1 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 9 Weight: 556
Motif: m38c3 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 9 Weight: 556
Motif: m179b Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 11 Weight: 545
Motif: b115a Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 11 Weight: 545
Motif: f5a Shared traditions: 12 All traditions: 22 Weight: 545
Motif: e9l Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 13 Weight: 538