m39e2


Motif

Motif code: 
m29e2
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: 
11
Stith Thompson ID: 
1543E*

Linked traditions:
Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
Telugu (incl. Yanadi, Chenchu)
Italians: Northern (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Southern Tirol, Emilia–Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino–Alto Adige)
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
Danes
Uzbek
Avar, Andi, Akhvakh
Mongols of Inner Mongolia
Early Russian written sources
Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: b110a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: f100 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: m75b3 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: l15g1 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: i50c Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: m74e Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: m195b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: c33b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: b121 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: k176a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: j51a2 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: k56ab Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 10 Weight: 300
Motif: m205 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 7 Weight: 286
Motif: m198b1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 7 Weight: 286
Motif: m199d1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 8 Weight: 250
Motif: c30d Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: c8c1 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: n26 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250
Motif: c6g Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 4 Weight: 250