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Motif

Name_eng:

Slaughter any sheep that will look at you!

Description:

A fool (trickster) is told to slaughter any sheep (cow, ox) that will look at him, i.e. it’s all the same which one. He kills all the sheep because all of them looked in his direction

Name_rus:

Зарежь овцу, которая на тебя смотрит

Description_rus:

Дурак или плут получает указание зарезать ту овцу (корову, быка), которая на него посмотрит, т.е. все равно, какую. Он режет всех, ибо все посмотрели

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
4.1.1.3	Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.1.3.5	Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
4.1.3.8	Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk