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Motif

Name_eng:

Mushrooms from St. Peter’s spittle

Description:

St. Peter eats bread (cake) secretly. When Chist talks to him he tries to hide what he ei eating and spits it out. Afterwards mushrooms grow from crumbs

Name_rus:

Св. Петр выплевывает грибы

Description_rus:

Св. Петр украдкой ест хлеб, а при вопросе Христа, что он делает, давится, выплевывает крошки и они превращаются в грибы

Motif type:

Adventures and tricks

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

07 Etiology of plants and animals and of their peculiar features, particular animals as protagonists of cosmological stories, metamorphoses, weather and calendar

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:

ATU ID:

774L

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.3.2.2	Sicily
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.1.2	Kashubians, Poles of Polish Pomorie
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians