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Motif

Name_eng:

The drunk elephants

Description:

When water in a spring is replaced with alcohol, honey, etc. or bottles of alcohol seem to be left without supervison, a creature of person becomes drunk and is caught

Name_rus:

Опьяневшие слоны

Description_rus:

Чтобы поймать животное или сверхъестественного персонажа, воду в водоеме заменяют вином, медом и т.п. либо на виду оставляют емкости с алкоголем. Существо, утратившее над собой контроль, схвачено

Motif type:

Adventures and tricks

Motif group:

10 Adventures

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
3.4.1.1	Ancient Greece
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.2.1	Albanians
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.4.1	Gagauz
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.1.6.2	Chechens
5.1.8.1	Terek Cossacks
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.9	Khwarezm Uzbek; Turkic written tradition from Kök Orda