m114i


Motif

Motif code: 
m114i
Name_eng: 
Asked about their relatives, girl or boy answers with wit
Description: 

When a girl or a boy is asked where are her or his father, mother, brother or other relations or what they are doing she or he answers in such a way that only a smart person is able to understand what it is about (father went to make an enemy from a friend, mother went to make one out of two, etc.); or the girl explains corresponding answers of other person

Name_rus: 
Чем заняты твои родственники?
Description_rus: 
На вопросы, где отец, мать, брат и т.п. или чем они заняты, девушка или мальчик отвечают таким образом, что лишь умный человек может догадаться, о чем идет речь (отец пошел из друга делать врага, мать – из двух сделать одну и т.п.); либо девушка объясняет смысл подобных фраз, произнесенных другим
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: 
64
ATU ID: 
875(4)

Linked traditions:
Arabs of Iraq
Dan (=Gio), Guro (=Kweni, incl Gagu, Neio), Toura, Mano, Ngere, Beng, Guro
Fula (=Fulbe, Fulani, Pular)
Santali, Turi, Mahli
Maria, Muria, and other South-Central Dravidians: Binjhwar, Baсор, Bhattra, Bom, Jhoria (=Jhodia), Gadaba (in Koraput, neighbors of Munda-speaking Gadaba), Duruwa (Parji), Mehtar; Pardhan
Kashmiri
Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
Assamese
Ireland
England
Scotland
Spain
Portuguese
Catalan
Maltese
Sicily
Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
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
Poles
Czech
Slovakians
Hungarians
Greeks (modern)
Bulgarians
Serbs, Monte Negro,
Slovenians
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Lithuanians
Latvians
Estonians
Setu
Karelians
Eastern Sami (including Inari, Skolts)
Swedes
Danes
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
Byelarusians
Pashto
Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
Abkhaz
Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi
Svans
Georgians
Crimea Tatars, Karaims
Gagauz
Anatolia Turks
Mari (Cheremis)
Buryats: Western (cis Baikal)
Siberian Tatars
Oriya (incl. Dom/Domba/Dombo, Ghasi, Bhat and other Oriya-speaking castes of Odisha)
Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
Wallons, Picardie
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Ukrainians: Northern 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)
Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
Frisians
Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
Occitanie (southern France): Limousin, Auvergne, Provence, Aquitaine, Albret, Gers, Aveyron (Rouerge), Armagnac, Landes, Gascogne, Vivarés, Roussillon, Pyrénées, Bearne, Guyenne, Bigorre, Ain, Hautes Alpes, Ariège, Vienne, Aude, French part of Swiss

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