m135b

Motif

Name_eng:

Wolf regrets for being so stupid

Description:

Wolf (rare: jackal, fox) comes to different domestic animals (rare: only to one animal) to eat them but agrees to fulfill their demands. As a result he remains hungry and usually beaten and accuses himself that his ways were so stupid (“Am I a mollah to read?”)

Name_rus:

Волк жалеет о собственной глупости

Description_rus:

Волк (редко – шакал, лиса) подходит к различным домашним животным (реже – только к одному животному), чтобы их съесть, но, соглашаясь исполнить просьбу, остается голодным и обычно побитым, а в заключение обвиняет самого себя («Разве я мулла, чтобы читать?» и т.п.)

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
3.1.3.2	Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.3.3	Wallons, Picardie
3.3.3.5	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
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
3.4.1.1	Ancient Greece
3.4.1.1	Ancient Greece
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.2.3	Bosnia Muslims
3.5.3.3	Transylvanian Saksons
3.5.4.1	Gagauz
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.1.2	Kashubians, Poles of Polish Pomorie
4.1.1.3	Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.3	Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.1.3.1	Russians: Central part of Russian ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500: Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, eastern part of Smolensk provinces (most of Smolensk province is Belorussian ethnic territory)
4.1.4.1	Early Russian written sources
4.2.1.4	Swedes
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.5.3	Kumyk, Terekemen
5.1.6.1	Ingush
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Karata, Akhvakh
5.1.7.5	Lezgians, Archin, Kürin; Khinalug
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.11	Luri, Bakhtiari
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.4.2.5	Baluch
5.4.2.6	Pashto
5.5.1.2	Kara Kalpak
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
5.5.2.5	Salars
5.6.2.17	Sinhalese; Vedda
6.2.1.2	NE Tibetans (Amdo)
9.1.3.1	Tuvinians of Tuva
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
9.1.5.4	Daur (Daghur)