m136b | MapsOfMyths

Name_eng:

Cutting off the branch

Description:

Man sitting on branch of a tree cuts it off and similar variants (man climbs a rope and cuts it off; men cut a tree and climb on it to fell it; man climbs with difficulty on a dead branch of a tree, which breaks off)

Name_rus:

Рубит сук, на котором сидит

Description_rus:

Человек рубит сук, на котором сидит и сходные варианты (режет веревку, по которой забрался наверх; лезет на высохший сук, который ломается; забирается на подрубленное дерево, чтобы его повалить).

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:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
3.1.3.2	Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
3.1.3.3	Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
3.2.1.4	Somali
3.2.2.1	Amhara; Zay, Harari; Silte, Gogot
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.1.5	Basques
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)
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.3.3.3	Wallons, Picardie
3.3.3.4	Upper Brittany
3.3.4.1	Ireland
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)
3.3.5.6	Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
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
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
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)
4.1.3.6	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)
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.3.3	Vepsians
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.2.4.4	Livonians
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.5.1	Stavropol Turkmen (recent migrants from Mangyshlak Peninsular)
5.1.7.3	Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.3.2.6	Arabs of Kuwait, Bahrein, Qatar, Emirates, Oman,
5.3.3.1	Yemen
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
5.4.2.12	Parachi, Ormur
5.4.2.6	Pashto
5.6.1.1	Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
5.6.2.14	Bengali, Maithili
5.6.2.17	Sinhalese; Vedda
5.6.2.9	Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
6.2.2.1	Lepcha