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Motif

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:

ATU ID:

1551

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.4.1.3	Kordofan
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.1.4	Aragon
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)
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.3.4.1	Ireland
3.3.4.4	England
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
3.3.5.2	Frisians
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
3.5.2.1	Albanians
3.5.2.4	Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
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)
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.3.2	Karelians
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
5.1.6.1	Ingush
5.1.6.2	Chechens
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.3.2.3	Arabs of Iraq
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
5.4.2.6	Pashto
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.6.1.1	Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
5.6.2.17	Sinhalese; Vedda
5.6.2.9	Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
5.6.3.1	Telugu (incl. Yanadi, Chenchu)
6.3.2.1	Khmer