m91c5


Motif

Motif code: 
m91c5
Name_eng: 
The wager that sheep are hogs
Description: 

A man (a boy) drives his cow (or any other domestic animal of a big size) to market. A trickster who would like to buy the animal cheaply tries to convince him that it is a sheep (or any other smaller and cheaper animal). Trickster’s accomplices confirm his opinion and the man sells his cow for the price of a sheep

Name_rus: 
Убыточная продаже
Description_rus: 
Сам человек или его маленький сын идет на базар продать корову (или другое крупное домашнее животное). Жулик убеждает его, что это овца (или другое животное меньшего размера и более дешевое). Каждый из дружков жулика подтверждает оценку или дает еще более низкую. Человек в растерянности продает корову по цене овцы
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: 
48
ATU ID: 
1551

Linked traditions:
Arabs of Iraq
Arabs of Egypt
Algeria Arabs
Khmer
Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
Telugu (incl. Yanadi, Chenchu)
Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
Sinhalese; Vedda
Ireland
England
Portuguese
Catalan
Aragon
Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
French (northern France)
Dutch, Flemish
Poles
Hungarians
Greeks (modern)
Macedonians
Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Albanians
Finns
Karelians
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
Pashto
Persians
Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
Abkhaz
Karachays, Balkar
Ingush
Georgians
Armenians
Kalmyk
Anatolia Turks
Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
Kazakh
Turkmen
Chechens
Kordofan
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)
Frisians
Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)

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