l129

Motif

Name_eng:

Why so big teeth? (Little Red Riding Hood)

Description:

Person or animal is asked why his or her body parts or tools are such as they are. He or she gives the answers (or one who is asking answers for him). Ultimately one of them kills or badly injures the other

Name_rus:

Почему такие большие зубы (Красная Шапочка)

Description_rus:

Персонажа спрашивают, почему части его тела, органы, орудия таковы, каковы они есть. Тот отвечает (либо сам спрашивающий дает объяснения за него). В конце концов один убивает или калечит другого

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:

333

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.2.1	Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)
3.3.2.8	Italians: Northeast (Trentino – Alto Adige, Veneto, Venezia Giulia, Southern Tirol, Friuli, Istria)
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.3.3.4	Upper Brittany
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.3.5.7	Eastern Prussia
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
4.1.1.2	Kashubians, Poles of Polish Pomorie
4.1.1.3	Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.2.1.4	Swedes
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.5.1	Latvians
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.2.2.6	Zaza (western Kurds)
5.4.2.1	Persians
6.3.1.1	Burmese, Intha
6.3.2.5	Mon