m39a5a3


Motif

Motif code: 
m39a5a3
Name_eng: 
Devils beat the landlord
Description: 

A man understands that if his wife let out the truth, it would bring them trouble. He tells her that sounds that she hears are screams of the landlord (official, etc.) because devils (or somebody else) beat him (carry him to the hell, etc.). Being summoned to the official, she repeats what her husband had told her and considered mad

Name_rus: 
Черти барина били
Description_rus: 
Понимая, что жена, рассказав правду, навлечет на семью беду, муж говорит, что те звуки, которые она слышит, есть вопли барина (чиновника и т.п.), которого бьют, тащат в ад и т.п. Она повторяет это барину (чиновнику), тот признает ее невменяемой
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: 
19

Linked traditions:
Poles
Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
Slovakians
Lithuanians
Latvians
Livonians
Finns
Karelians
Eastern Sami (including Inari, Skolts)
Danes
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
Byelarusians
Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Ukrainians: Northern dialects
Terek Cossacks
Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: k56ac Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif: k168b Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif: h33a Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 14 Weight: 786
Motif: m203a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: l42i1 Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 15 Weight: 733
Motif: a32m Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: k56a5d Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 13 Weight: 692
Motif: k113b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: k73b7 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: k100i Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: i50a1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: m57d4 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 11 Weight: 636
Motif: k80a5 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 8 Weight: 625
Motif: j47a1 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: i87e Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: i87c Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 17 Weight: 588
Motif: m197e1 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 12 Weight: 583
Motif: k33a4 Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 19 Weight: 579
Motif: k64c Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571