m207


Motif

Name_eng: 
The mouse in the jug
Description: 

A poor married couple (a poor man) bemoans life’s harshness and blame Adam and Eve who through their disobedience and curiosity brought sin into the world. A powerful person hears their complaint and put them into the place where they can live in luxury. He stipulates only that they must not break certain taboo (usually to open a covered vessel). They break taboo and are returned to their old way of life

Name_rus: 
Мышонок в миске
Description_rus: 
Бедняки винят Адама и Еву в своих несчастьях. Властный персонаж предоставляет им возможность жить безбедно с условием не нарушать определенный запрет (обычно не открывать какой-то сосуд). Они не в силах противостоять соблазну после чего возвращены в свое прежнее состояние
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: 
35
ATU ID: 
1416

Linked traditions:
Areal IDTradition
3.3.1.1Spain
3.3.1.2Portuguese
3.3.3.1Bretagne
3.3.3.2French (northern France)
3.3.3.4Upper Brittany
3.3.3.5Occitanie (southern France): Limousin, Auvergne, Provence, Aquitaine, Albret, Gers, Aveyron (Rouerge), Armagnac, Landes, Gascogne, Vivarés, Roussillon, Pyrénées, Bearne, Guyenne, Bigorre, Ain, Hautes Alpes, Ariège, Vienne, Aude, French part of Swiss
3.3.4.1Ireland
3.3.4.4England
3.3.5.1Dutch, Flemish
3.3.5.2Frisians
3.3.5.3Germans: Northwest (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl. East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen
3.5.1.2Bulgarians
3.5.1.3Macedonians
3.5.2.1Albanians
3.5.2.3Bosnia Muslims
3.5.3.1Hungarians
3.5.3.2Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.1.1Poles
4.1.1.4Czech
4.1.1.5Slovakians
4.1.2.1Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.4Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.1.3.1Russians: 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)
4.2.1.2Norwegians
4.2.1.3Danes
4.2.1.4Swedes
4.2.2.1Western Sami
4.2.3.1Finns
4.2.3.3Vepsians
4.2.4.2Estonians
4.2.5.1Latvians
4.2.5.2Lithuanians
5.1.8.1Terek Cossacks
5.3.2.2Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: i22g1 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 4 Weight: 1000
Motif: k73a9 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
Motif: l9g Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
Motif: m38c2 Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 13 Weight: 846
Motif: k33c5 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: k76d Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 13 Weight: 769
Motif: e9l Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 13 Weight: 769
Motif: n17 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 8 Weight: 750
Motif: m199d1 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 8 Weight: 750
Motif: k107e1 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: l73a Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 8 Weight: 750
Motif: i7b Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: b124 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: m198b1 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: m197f Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 13 Weight: 692
Motif: m147b Shared traditions: 11 All traditions: 16 Weight: 688
Motif: j51a Shared traditions: 13 All traditions: 19 Weight: 684
Motif: m168a Shared traditions: 13 All traditions: 19 Weight: 684
Motif: k103c Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 9 Weight: 667