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m29g2
Motif
Name_eng:
A crab wins thanks to his smartness
Description:
Being smart and witty, the crab overcomes strong adversaries
Name_rus:
Рак – хитрец-победитель
Description_rus:
Рак (краб) обманывает сильных противников с помощью хитрости
Motif type:
Adventures and tricks
Motif group:
09 Identification of protagonists of the stories with particular animals or persons with particular qualities
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:
27
Linked traditions:
Areal ID
Tradition
10.2.4.1
Koreans; Goguryeo
3.3.2.1
Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)
3.3.2.6
Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
3.3.2.7
Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.3.4.1
Ireland
3.3.5.5
Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.5.1.1
Greeks (modern)
3.5.2.3
Bosnia Muslims
4.1.1.1
Poles
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)
4.1.3.6
Russians: Southern part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Belgorod, Voronezh, Tambov, Penza, Lipetsk, Orel, Kursk, Bryansk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Samara, Simbirsk and Saratov provinces)
4.2.1.3
Danes
4.2.1.4
Swedes
4.2.3.1
Finns
4.2.4.2
Estonians
4.2.5.1
Latvians
4.2.5.2
Lithuanians
4.3.1.1
Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
5.2.2.1
Armenians
5.2.2.3
Anatolia Turks
6.4.3.7
Mentawai
7.2.4.2
Palau (Western Carolines)
7.2.4.3
Yap
7.2.5.4
Truk, Eastern Fayu, Losap, Pulap, Puluwat, Mortlock (incl. Satawan)
7.2.5.5
Ponape, Ngaik, Mwoakil (Mokil), Kusaie (Kosrae)
Motifs correlation (top 20):
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m152f
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif:
m187c
Shared traditions: 22 All traditions: 32 Weight: 688
Motif:
c32
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif:
m45b
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif:
k100i
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif:
b125a
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif:
k38b3c
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif:
l133
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif:
m201
Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif:
a32m
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
Motif:
k56a4e
Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 14 Weight: 571
Motif:
m187a
Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 14 Weight: 571
Motif:
f57
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571
Motif:
k149
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 9 Weight: 556
Motif:
m38c3
Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 9 Weight: 556
Motif:
n16
Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 13 Weight: 538
Motif:
m157a5
Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 17 Weight: 529
Motif:
m39a4d
Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif:
k80a5
Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 8 Weight: 500