i13e


Motif

Name_eng: 
The betrayed serpent
Description: 

The serpent lets a man go on condition that he will not tell about their meeting. Under pain of death the man breaks his promise. The serpent instructs him how to dring the broth that will be made of his meat and revenges not on the man but on those who had forced him to break his word

Name_rus: 
Преданный змей
Description_rus: 
Змей соглашается отпустить человека с условием, что тот не расскажет об их встрече. Под страхом смерти человек нарушает обещание. Змей учит пить отвар, который приготовят из его мяса, и мстит не человеку, а тем, кто заставил того нарушить слово
Motif type: 
Cosmology and etiology
Motif group: 
08 Queer and monstrous beings, creatures, objects and loci, folk beliefs related to particular phenomena and objects
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: 
7

Linked traditions:
Areal IDTradition
1.2.5.12Swahili, Midjikenda (incl Giryama), Nyika, Duruma; Ngindo, Kiluguru and other Islamic groups of the Eastern Coast of Africa
4.3.3.1Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
5.1.2.1Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.2.2.5Kurds
5.3.2.5Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
5.5.1.1Kazakh
5.5.1.3Kirghiz

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: m39a2e Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: n26 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: k180 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: k169 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: b2f2 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: n28g Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: l125a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: k167b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: m114f Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: l94d Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: f100a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: i140 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: m195b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: k27u2 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: h7g2 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: m116b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: m74e Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: f100b Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: m198a2 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 10 Weight: 300