m191b


Motif

Motif code: 
m191b
Name_eng: 
Ingratitude and injury are hard to forget
Description: 

A man feeds a snake (rare: a fish; does not do it any harm) and the snake makes him rich (is friendly). His son (rare: someone else or the man himself) injures the snake (kills its young) and dies (if son; because of the bite). The snake refuses to keep former friendship with the man: both of them remember the inflicted pain

Name_rus: 
Змея не забудет отрубленного хвоста
Description_rus: 
Человек делает добро (не делает зла) змее (рыбе, льву) и получает от этого выгоду. Его сын (реже кто-то еще или он сам) ранит змею (обычно отрубает ей хвост) и – если это сын – гибнет от укуса). Змея отказывается продолжать отношения с человеком, они оба не забудут своей потери
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: 
30
ATU ID: 
285A

Linked traditions:
Aramaic (Syrians)
Yemen
Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
Arabs of Iraq
Arabs of Egypt
Somali
Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
Spain
Catalan
French (northern France)
Dutch, Flemish
Poles
Czech
Hungarians
Greeks (modern)
Bulgarians
Macedonians
Serbs, Monte Negro,
Albanians
Ancient Greece
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
Tajik
Persians
Ingush
Laks
Anatolia Turks
Turkmen
Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
Early Russian written sources
Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: b32a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 2 Weight: 1000
Motif: k32b Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif: b33f1 Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 12 Weight: 750
Motif: k56a5c Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 8 Weight: 750
Motif: m39a4d Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: h6c2 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: i100d Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: m39a4b1 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: i140 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: m39a5a2 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: m198b3 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 8 Weight: 625
Motif: k93b6 Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 17 Weight: 588
Motif: k155b Shared traditions: 13 All traditions: 23 Weight: 565
Motif: a2c1 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 9 Weight: 556
Motif: b33f2 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 9 Weight: 556
Motif: k27z2f Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 9 Weight: 556
Motif: k32l Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 11 Weight: 545
Motif: m164a Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 17 Weight: 529
Motif: m163a Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 14 Weight: 500