m91c6

Motif

Name_eng:

Hat alleged to be magic

Description:

A man pays in advance and invites his enemies to eat with him. When he turns his hat (throws it on the floor, etc.), they believe that it is the hat that makes the innkeeper say that the bill has been settled

Name_rus:

Шапка платит по счетам

Description_rus:

Человек продает другим шапку, убедив их в том, что она платит по счету, надо лишь ее приподнять (бросить на пол и т.п.). На самом деле он заранее расплатился с трактирщиком

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:

(1539)

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.2.4	Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.3	Ukrainians: Northern 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)
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.1.3.3	Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
4.1.3.8	Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.3.3	Vepsians
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.2.5.1	Latvians
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.6.1	Ingush
5.1.6.2	Chechens
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.6.2.17	Sinhalese; Vedda