m147b

Motif

Name_eng:

The fox rids himself of fleas

Description:

When foxes (wolves) meet and dogs begin to chase them, one of the foxes says that their next meeting will be at the bazaar where pelts are sold

Name_rus:

Лиса избавляется от блох

Description_rus:

Чтобы избавиться от блох, лиса (шакал) берет в рот пучок мха (сена, травы) и погружается в воду. Блохи, чтобы не утонуть, переходят все ближе к ее голове, а затем попадают на мох или сено. Лиса оставляет пучок в воде и выходит на берег

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
3.3.1.3	Catalan
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
3.3.5.1	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
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.2.1.3	Danes
4.2.1.4	Swedes
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.5.1	Latvians
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
5.6.2.9	Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)