m130c

Motif

Name_eng:

The mouse and the lion (the help of the weak)

Description:

When a lion (tiger, bear, elephant, man) gets into a trap, a mouse (rat) makes him free (usually bites through the ropes)

Name_rus:

Лев и мышь

Description_rus:

Когда лев (тигр, медведь, слон, человек) попадает в ловушку, мышь или крыса освобождает его (обычно перегрызает веревки)

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:

ATU ID:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.2.2.3	Tonga (Tsonga; incl, Soli, Sala, Lenje)
1.2.5.12	Swahili, Midjikenda (incl Giryama), Nyika, Duruma; Ngindo, Kiluguru and other Islamic groups of the Eastern Coast of Africa
1.3.1.4	Igbo (Ibo); Isoko, Urhobo
1.3.5.12	Susu
1.4.1.2	Arabs of Sudan
3.1.1.1	Ancient Egypt
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
3.1.3.2	Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
3.1.3.3	Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
3.1.3.5	Morocco Arabs
3.2.1.4	Somali
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.2.1	Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
3.4.1.1	Ancient Greece
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.4.1	Early Russian written sources
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.4.4	Livonians
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.3.2.1	Aramaic (Syrians)
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.3.2.3	Arabs of Iraq
5.3.2.4	Saudi Arabia
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.6.1.1	Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
5.6.2.12	Marathi (incl. Bhamta; incl. Mumbai area)
5.6.2.5	Bhils (incl Barela-Bhilala), Pardhi, Kokna, Parwa
5.6.3.5	Nilgiri Hills: Toda, Kota, Kurumba (Kuruba), Badaga, Maravar, Pulaya, Adiya, Kadar, Irula
6.1.2.3	Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)
6.2.1.2	NE Tibetans (Amdo)
6.3.1.1	Burmese, Intha