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Motif

Name_eng:

Soup with parsley and onions

Description:

One person asks another to cook a soup with parsley and onions. The latter understands (pretends to understand) that he must cook a child or a dog whose names sound similarly

Name_rus:

Суп с петрушкой и луком

Description_rus:

Один человек просит другого положить в суп петрушку и/или лук. Тот (делает вид, что) понимает слова таким образом, будто он должен убить ребенка (собаку) по имени Петрушка (Лука)

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:

ATU ID:

(1685)

Stith Thompson ID:

j2482.1

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.3.5.4	Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
3.3.5.7	Eastern Prussia
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
3.5.3.3	Transylvanian Saksons
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.3	Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
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)
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.1.3.7	Russian Pomors ("seasiders"): Lower Pechora
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians