m163b

Motif

Name_eng:

Father’s heritage brings fortune

Description:

When a man is dying, he leaves his son (each of his sons) something that does not have any significant value. The son comes to a country where the corresponding object or animal is unknown and sells it for great money

Name_rus:

Наследство приносит удачу

Description_rus:

Отец оставляет в наследство сыну (каждому из сыновей) нечто, не имеющее особой ценности. Тот приходит в страну, где соответствующие предметы или животные не известны, и продает полученное за большие деньги

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
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
3.1.3.5	Morocco Arabs
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.1.4	Aragon
3.3.3.1	Bretagne
3.3.3.3	Wallons, Picardie
3.3.3.4	Upper Brittany
3.3.5.3	Germans: 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
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.1.2.3	Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.4.2.1	Persians