m191b

Motif

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:

ATU ID:

285A

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
3.2.1.4	Somali
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.2.6	Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
3.4.1.1	Ancient Greece
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
3.5.2.1	Albanians
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.4.1	Early Russian written sources
5.1.6.1	Ingush
5.1.7.4	Laks
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.3.2.1	Aramaic (Syrians)
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.3.2.3	Arabs of Iraq
5.3.2.5	Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
5.3.3.1	Yemen
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.6.1.1	Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples