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Motif
Name_eng:
The wolf is a failure
Description:
Because of its stupidity and unsocial behavior, the wolf suffers a reverse, is injured or dies
Name_rus:
Волк – неудачник и проигравший
Description_rus:
Вследствие своей глупости или асоциального поведения волк гибнет или претерпевает ущерб
Motif type:
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group:
09 Identification of protagonists of the stories with particular animals or persons with particular qualities
Motif analysis result:
2. Only those motifs that are found in America (including the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans)
Motif analysis result tradition count all:
188
Linked traditions:
Areal ID
Tradition
1.1.1.1
Bushmen (all groups)
1.2.1.3
Tswana (Chwana), Suto (Soto; incl Pedi, Mbire)
1.2.3.1
Herero (Herrero)
1.4.1.1
Nubians
10.2.2.2
Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang Chinese; Manchuria Chinese (data not specified on particular provinces)
10.2.2.5
Jiangsu and Zhejang Chinese
10.2.2.6
Henan and Hubei Chinese
10.2.4.1
Koreans; Goguryeo
11.1.1.1
Forest (Upper Kolyma) Yukaghir (Oduls)
11.1.2.1
Chukchi
11.1.3.2
Maritime Koryak (Alyutor)
11.1.3.3
Kerek
11.1.3.4
Kamchadal
11.2.1.1
Asiatic Eskimo (Sirenek, Naukan, Chaplino)
11.2.2.1
Bering Strait Inupiat (incl. King Island)
11.2.2.2
North Alaskan Inupiat
11.2.3.2
Copper
12.3.2.1
Shuswap
12.3.7.7
Oregon Athabaskans: Lower Umpqua, Tututni (incl Joshua), Upper Coquille, Galice, Tolowa
12.4.2.1
Menominee
12.4.2.9
Potawatomi
12.7.1.9
Ute
13.1.4.4
Osage
13.3.3.4
Choctaw, Chicasaw
13.3.4.1
Cherokee
13.3.4.2
Catawba, Tutelo
3.1.2.1
Arabs of Egypt
3.1.3.1
Berbers of southern Tunisia and adjacent part of Lybia (Matmata, Ghadames, Yefren)
3.1.3.3
Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
3.1.3.5
Morocco Arabs
3.1.3.6
Algeria Arabs
3.1.3.7
Tunisia Arabs
3.3.1.1
Spain
3.3.1.2
Portuguese
3.3.1.3
Catalan
3.3.1.4
Aragon
3.3.1.5
Basques
3.3.1.6
Galicians
3.3.2.1
Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)
3.3.2.2
Sicily
3.3.2.3
Sardinia, Corsica
3.3.2.4
Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
3.3.2.6
Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
3.3.2.7
Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.3.2.8
Italians: Northeast (Trentino – Alto Adige, Veneto, Venezia Giulia, Southern Tirol, Friuli, Istria)
3.3.3.1
Bretagne
3.3.3.2
French (northern France)
3.3.3.3
Wallons, Picardie
3.3.3.4
Upper Brittany
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
3.3.4.1
Ireland
3.3.4.3
Scotland
3.3.4.4
England
3.3.5.1
Dutch, Flemish
3.3.5.2
Frisians
3.3.5.3
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
3.3.5.4
Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
3.3.5.5
Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.3.5.7
Eastern Prussia
3.4.1.1
Ancient Greece
3.5.1.1
Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2
Bulgarians
3.5.1.3
Macedonians
3.5.1.5
Byzantine literature
3.5.2.1
Albanians
3.5.2.2
Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.2.4
Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
3.5.2.5
Slovenians
3.5.3.1
Hungarians
3.5.3.1
Hungarians
3.5.3.2
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
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
4.1.2.1
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.3
Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.1.2.4
Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.1.2.5
Byelarusians
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)
4.1.3.2
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.1.3.3
Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
4.1.3.4
Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
4.1.3.5
Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
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)
4.1.3.8
Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.2.1.2
Norwegians
4.2.1.3
Danes
4.2.1.4
Swedes
4.2.2.1
Western Sami
4.2.3.1
Finns
4.2.3.2
Karelians
4.2.3.3
Vepsians
4.2.4.1
Votians
4.2.4.2
Estonians
4.2.4.3
Setu
4.2.4.4
Livonians
4.2.4.5
Lutsi (Ludza)
4.2.5.1
Latvians
4.2.5.2
Lithuanians
4.3.1.1
Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
4.3.1.2
Udmurt
4.3.2.1
Mari (Cheremis)
4.3.2.2
Mordvins
4.3.2.3
Chuvash
4.3.3.1
Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2
Bashkirs
5.1.1.1
Kalmyk
5.1.3.1
Abkhaz
5.1.3.2
Abaza (Abazins)
5.1.3.3
Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.4.2
Ossetians
5.1.5.3
Kumyk, Terekemen
5.1.6.1
Ingush
5.1.7.1
Avar, Andi, Karata, Akhvakh
5.1.7.2
Dido (Tsez), Hunsib, Khvarshi
5.1.7.3
Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi
5.1.7.4
Laks
5.1.7.5
Lezgians, Archin, Kürin; Khinalug
5.1.7.7
Tabasaran, Aghul
5.1.7.9
Tats
5.1.8.1
Terek Cossacks
5.2.1.1
Georgians
5.2.2.1
Armenians
5.2.2.2
Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.2.2.3
Anatolia Turks
5.2.2.4
Talysh
5.2.2.5
Kurds
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
5.3.2.5
Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
5.4.2.1
Persians
5.4.2.10
Turkmen
5.4.2.12
Parachi, Ormur
5.4.2.13
Parya of Gissar (Hisor) Valley (Tajikistan)
5.4.2.3
Tajik
5.4.2.4
Highland Tajik
5.4.2.5
Baluch
5.4.2.6
Pashto
5.4.2.7
Bukhara Arabs
5.4.2.8
Uzbek
5.4.3.1
Yagnobi
5.4.3.2
Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi
5.4.4.2
Dards (Kalash, Kho, Kohistani, Shina, Pashai)
5.5.1.1
Kazakh
5.5.1.2
Kara Kalpak
5.5.1.3
Kirghiz
5.5.2.1
Uyghur
5.5.2.3
Dungan of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan
5.5.2.5
Salars
5.5.2.6
Hui of Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Qinghai (rare Hui texts from Southern and Eastern China are clustered with the Chinese ones)
5.6.1.1
Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
5.6.2.1
Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
5.6.2.9
Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
6.1.1.3
Northern Munda of Kharwar branch: Birhor, Ho, Mundari, Kol, Asur (including Agaria, Kol, Birjhia), Bhumij
6.2.1.1
Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
6.2.1.2
NE Tibetans (Amdo)
6.2.1.3
Eastern Tibetans (Kham; Sichuan, NW Yunnan)
6.2.1.5
Western Tibetans (Ladakh, Spiti)
6.2.4.1
Kachin (Jingpho), Chak, Maru
6.3.2.1
Khmer
9.1.1.1
Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
9.1.1.3
Northern Altai: Chelkan, Kumanda, Tubalar
9.1.2.2
Khakas
9.1.3.1
Tuvinians of Tuva
9.1.3.2
Tuvinians of Southern Altai
9.1.3.3
Tofa (Karagas)
9.1.4.1
Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
9.1.4.2
Buryats: Eastern (Trans-Baikal, Mongolia and Inner Mongolia)
9.1.5.2
Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)
9.1.5.3
Mongols (Khalkha)
9.1.5.4
Daur (Daghur)
9.1.5.6
Monguor (Tu), Shirongol
9.1.5.7
Mongols of Inner Mongolia
9.2.3.4
Nganasans
9.3.1.1
Central Yakuts (Sakha)
9.3.1.2
Dolgans
9.3.1.5
Northeastern Yakuts (Sakha): Yana, Indigirka and Kolyma Basins
9.3.2.1
Western Tungus/Evenki: Podkamennaya Tunguska, Katanga, Nepa, Kamenka, Upper Lena
9.3.2.3
Baikal RegionTungus/Evenki
9.3.2.4
Ilimpii Tungus/Evenki
9.3.2.5
Yerbogachen Tungus/Evenki
9.3.3.1
Tungus.Evenki) of Russian Far East
Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif:
k90b
Shared traditions: 12 All traditions: 12 Weight: 1000
Motif:
m147b
Shared traditions: 16 All traditions: 16 Weight: 1000
Motif:
m57d4
Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 11 Weight: 1000
Motif:
m39a6j
Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 7 Weight: 1000
Motif:
m182b
Shared traditions: 30 All traditions: 30 Weight: 1000
Motif:
i50c
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif:
b33f1
Shared traditions: 12 All traditions: 12 Weight: 1000
Motif:
k76e
Shared traditions: 18 All traditions: 18 Weight: 1000
Motif:
l23b
Shared traditions: 16 All traditions: 16 Weight: 1000
Motif:
e41a
Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 7 Weight: 1000
Motif:
a12g
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 5 Weight: 1000
Motif:
k113b
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif:
f100b
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif:
h33a
Shared traditions: 14 All traditions: 14 Weight: 1000
Motif:
b33e1
Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 10 Weight: 1000
Motif:
d4h
Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 7 Weight: 1000
Motif:
k35a6
Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 9 Weight: 1000
Motif:
k33a2
Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 9 Weight: 1000
Motif:
b125a
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 5 Weight: 1000
Motif:
a32d2
Shared traditions: 14 All traditions: 14 Weight: 1000