m39a4e


Motif

Motif code: 
m39a4e
Name_eng: 
Fool’s customer is a tree
Description: 

Fool sells property to a tree (stump, pole, a cross in the countryside) and believes that it will pay him. Trying to get his money, he finds treasure

Name_rus: 
Дурак продает имущество дереву
Description_rus: 
Дурак продает имущество дереву (пню, столбу, кресту в поле), полагая, что покупатель заплатит. Пытаясь получить деньги, он находит клад
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: 
25

Linked traditions:
Kannada, Lingayat, Halakki
Poles
Czech
Hungarians
Bulgarians
Latvians
Estonians
Finns
Karelians
Vepsians
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
Byelarusians
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)
Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz
Crimea Tatars, Karaims
Bashkirs
Mordvins
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Ukrainians: Northern dialects
Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: k113b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: f9g1 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: k100i Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: k171 Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 11 Weight: 818
Motif: j47a1 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif: m191c Shared traditions: 13 All traditions: 17 Weight: 765
Motif: i137 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: k80a5 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 8 Weight: 750
Motif: k35c2 Shared traditions: 12 All traditions: 16 Weight: 750
Motif: b49b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: n35 Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 12 Weight: 750
Motif: i7b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: l23b Shared traditions: 12 All traditions: 16 Weight: 750
Motif: l42i1 Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 15 Weight: 733
Motif: k56a4d Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: l110c Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 14 Weight: 714
Motif: h33a Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 14 Weight: 714
Motif: k64c Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: k56a4e Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 14 Weight: 714