n27

Motif

Name_eng:

The milk of birds

Description:

Bird’s (hen’s) milk is mentioned in fairy tales, riddles and proverbs as something very rare and difficult to obtain

Name_rus:

Птичье молоко

Description_rus:

Птичье (вариант: куриное, голубиное, ястребиное и т.п.) молоко упоминается в сказках, загадках, паремиях и заговорах как нечто очень редкое и труднодобываемое либо несуществующее в действительности

Motif type:

Adventures and tricks

Motif group:

13 Formulae

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.4.1.1	Ancient Greece
3.4.1.2	Ancient Italy: Latins, Etruscans, Magna Graecia
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.2.1	Albanians
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
4.1.2.3	Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.1.3.1	Russians: Central part of Russian ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500: Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, eastern part of Smolensk provinces (most of Smolensk province is Belorussian ethnic territory)
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)
4.1.3.8	Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.1.4.1	Early Russian written sources
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.3.3	Vepsians
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.1.5.1	Stavropol Turkmen (recent migrants from Mangyshlak Peninsular)
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Karata, Akhvakh
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.1.2	Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz
5.2.1.3	Svans
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.2.2.5	Kurds
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.1.2	Kara Kalpak
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
5.5.2.1	Uyghur
9.1.2.1	Shor
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)