m136b


Motif

Motif code: 
m136b
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: 
64

Linked traditions:
Yemen
Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
Arabs of Egypt
Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
Somali
Amhara; Zay, Harari; Silte, Gogot
Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
Bengali, Maithili
Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
Sinhalese; Vedda
Lepcha
Ireland
England
Spain
Portuguese
Basques
Italians: Northern (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Southern Tirol, Emilia–Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino–Alto Adige)
Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
French (northern France)
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
Poles
Greeks (modern)
Bulgarians
Macedonians
Serbs, Monte Negro,
Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
Slovenians
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Lithuanians
Latvians
Livonians
Estonians
Setu
Finns
Karelians
Vepsians
Norwegians
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
Byelarusians
Pashto
Persians
Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi
Crimea Tatars, Karaims
Stavropol Turkmen (recent migrants from Mangyshlak Peninsular)
Turkmen
Chuvash
Udmurt
Wallons, Picardie
Arabs of Kuwait, Bahrein, Qatar, Emirates, Oman,
Parachi, Ormur
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
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)
Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
Frisians
Upper Brittany
Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: k176a Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 6 Weight: 1000
Motif: j51a2 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 6 Weight: 1000
Motif: b49b Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif: k113b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: k181a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: b87b Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 10 Weight: 900
Motif: f87b Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 9 Weight: 889
Motif: m38d5 Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 9 Weight: 889
Motif: h54a Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 8 Weight: 875
Motif: k56a5c Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 8 Weight: 875
Motif: f5a Shared traditions: 19 All traditions: 22 Weight: 864
Motif: l9g Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
Motif: h6c2 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
Motif: k56a5b Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 13 Weight: 846
Motif: m197f Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 13 Weight: 846
Motif: m168a Shared traditions: 16 All traditions: 19 Weight: 842
Motif: k73b3 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: k65e1 Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 11 Weight: 818
Motif: m57d4 Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 11 Weight: 818