k14e


Motif

Motif code: 
k14e
Name_eng: 
The pretended inheritance
Description: 

Sons of a man neglect their father (daughters-in-law neglect their father-in-law). He pretends to be hiding something (counts money conspicuously, etc.). The sons believe that their father has considerable inheritance and become to look after him carefully. When the father finally dies they find nothing valuable in his chest

Name_rus: 
Сыновья думают, что отец богат
Description_rus: 
Сыновья не заботятся о престарелом отце (невестки не заботятся о свекре). Он делает вид, будто что-то прячет или показывает ценности, которые ему одолжили. Сыновья полагают, что ценности отец оставит тому, кого любит больше, и начинают о нем заботиться
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: 
46
ATU ID: 
982

Linked traditions:
Aramaic (Syrians)
Saudi Arabia
Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
Arabs of Egypt
Arabs of Libya
Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
Arabs of Sudan
Simeulue, Nias
Khmer
Kashmiri
Sinhalese; Vedda
Chinese folklore: Anhui, Jiangxi and data without precise provinience (incl Hakka, Min Dong)
Ireland
England
Spain
Catalan
Maltese
Italians: Northern (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Southern Tirol, Emilia–Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino–Alto Adige)
Sicily
Sardinia, Corsica
Bretagne
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
Czech
Slovakians
Hungarians
Greeks (modern)
Bulgarians
Serbs, Monte Negro,
Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
Slovenians
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Lithuanians
Latvians
Estonians
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
Byelarusians
Persians
Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
Georgians
Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
Arabs of Kuwait, Bahrein, Qatar, Emirates, Oman,
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
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)
Frisians

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: k56a5a Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 9 Weight: 889
Motif: k56a5c Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 8 Weight: 875
Motif: h6c2 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
Motif: a32m Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
Motif: k56a5b Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 13 Weight: 846
Motif: m179b Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 11 Weight: 818
Motif: i87e Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif: k32b Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif: b87b Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 10 Weight: 800
Motif: m136e Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 14 Weight: 786
Motif: b104a Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 9 Weight: 778
Motif: k76d Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 13 Weight: 769
Motif: m60a3 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: k38b3c Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: k27f3 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: k107e1 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: k65e1 Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 11 Weight: 727
Motif: m198b1 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: k73a9 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714