m120b

Motif

Name_eng:

Baby-sitter with a nice voice

Description:

Being in search of a baby-sitter (mourner, shepherd, etc.) person rejects those whose voice does not like. The one chosen by him or her has a nice voice but later eats up the baby (the deceased, sheep, etc.)

Name_rus:

Сиделка с приятным голосом

Description_rus:

Персонаж ищет няньку (сиделку, плачею, пастуха) и последовательно отвергает тех, чей голос ему не нравится. Останавливает выбор на том, чем голос красив, но выбранный съедает ребенка (больную, овец и пр.)

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.1.3.4	Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
4.1.3.6	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)
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.3.3	Vepsians
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.2.4.5	Lutsi (Ludza)
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
5.1.7.7	Tabasaran, Aghul
6.2.1.1	Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
6.2.1.3	Eastern Tibetans (Kham; Sichuan, NW Yunnan)
6.2.2.1	Lepcha
6.4.6.2	Toraja (Toradja), To Mori, Barée (=Eastern Toraja)