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Motif

Name_eng:

Pea-boy

Description:

A pea (bean, grain) or a pellet of cheep’s dung turns into a tiny boy (rare: girl); a child is as small as a pea. Or his mother conceived him after eating a pea

Name_rus:

Ребенок-горошина

Description_rus:

Крохотный мальчик (редко – девочка) возникает из горошины (боба, зернышка) или из катыша козьего помета, он ростом почти с горошину. Либо он родился после того, как его мать съела горошину

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
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
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.2.1	Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)
3.3.3.5	Occitanie (southern France): Limousin, Auvergne, Provence, Aquitaine, Albret, Gers, Aveyron (Rouerge), Armagnac, Landes, Gascogne, Vivarés, Roussillon, Pyrénées, Bearne, Guyenne, Bigorre, Ain, Hautes Alpes, Ariège, Vienne, Aude, French part of Swiss
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.2.4.5	Lutsi (Ludza)
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.2.2.5	Kurds
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.4.2.8	Uzbek
5.6.3.1	Telugu (incl. Yanadi, Chenchu)