k128b

Motif

Name_eng:

The rabbit-herd

Description:

King offers his daughter in marriage to whoever can herd (catch, tame, train) a particular number of rabbits (roosters, sheep, goats, geese, partridges) without losing any. A poor boy receives a magic whistle or other device with which he can summon the rabbits. In order to avoid the marriage, members (deputies) of the royal family (in disguise) try to but pne of his rabbits. The young man demands a degrading humiliating act and after the demands are fulfilled, the rabbit comes back to him.

Name_rus:

Заячий пастух

Description_rus:

Правитель отдаст дочь тому, кто сможет пасти без потерь (собрать, дрессировать) зайцев (белок, овец, домашних птиц, куропаток). Бедный юноша выполняет задание с помощью волшебного средства. Чтобы иметь предлог для отказа, члены семьи правителя пытаются купить одного зайца (волшебную дудку и пр.), дабы претендент не смог выполнить обещание, но в результате оказываются в унизительном положении

Motif type:

Adventures and tricks

Motif group:

10 Adventures

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:

570

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.1.6	Galicians
3.3.2.1	Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)
3.3.2.2	Sicily
3.3.2.6	Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.3.2.8	Italians: Northeast (Trentino – Alto Adige, Veneto, Venezia Giulia, Southern Tirol, Friuli, Istria)
3.3.3.1	Bretagne
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.3.4.1	Ireland
3.3.4.3	Scotland
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
3.3.5.2	Frisians
3.3.5.3	Germans: Northwest (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl. East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen
3.3.5.4	Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
3.3.5.6	Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
3.5.2.3	Bosnia Muslims
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.1.3	Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
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)
4.1.3.4	Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.2.1.4	Swedes
4.2.1.5	Icelanders
4.2.2.1	Western Sami
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.2.4.4	Livonians
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.3.2.7	Nawar (Zutt)
5.4.2.1	Persians
9.1.2.2	Khakas