m39e2

Motif

Name_eng:

The speaking tree

Description:

Two men hide a treasure together but one of them steals it and accuses another. He suggests the judge to interview the tree and asks his father to hide in the hollow of the tree and to tell that another man is the thief. When the tree is ordered to be burned and the old man cries, the real thief is exposed

Name_rus:

Дерево-оракул

Description_rus:

Двое людей вместе спрятали ценности, а один из них тайком их забрал. Он предлагает обратиться за разъяснением к дереву, росшему в этом месте, и прячет отца в дупло, чтобы тот вещал оттуда. Дерево поджигают и обман выходит наружу

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:

Stith Thompson ID:

1543E*

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.1.3.3	Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
3.3.2.1	Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)
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
4.1.4.1	Early Russian written sources
4.2.1.3	Danes
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Karata, Akhvakh
5.4.2.8	Uzbek
5.6.1.1	Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
5.6.3.1	Telugu (incl. Yanadi, Chenchu)
9.1.5.7	Mongols of Inner Mongolia