l45


Motif

Motif code: 
l45
Name_eng: 
Duped watchman
Description: 

An ogre or a stronger animal catches a man or a weaker animal or drives him into a small enclosure and goes away for a time leaving a watchman. The hero dupes the watchman, escapes. (Most, though hardly all American cases can have post-Columbian African origin)

Name_rus: 
Одураченный сторож
Description_rus: 
Сильный персонаж загоняет слабого в ловушку и оставляет кого-нибудь сторожить добычу; слабый одурачивает сторожа и убегает. (Значительная часть, хотя вряд ли все, американских текстов может быть недавнего африканского происхождения)
Motif type: 
Adventures and tricks
Motif group: 
11 Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior
Motif analysis result: 
2. Only those motifs that are found in America (including the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans)
3. Only those motifs that are found in Central and South America
4. All motifs of category 1 (cosmology) in sub-Saharan Africa and those motifs of category 2 (adventures) which are found in sub-Saharan Africa and widespread in the Indo-Pacific world with scarce or no cases in Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia
Motif analysis result tradition count all: 
35
ATU ID: 
Stith Thompson ID: 

Linked traditions:
Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
Shilluk, Anuak
Bari (incl Fajulu, Kuku), Kakwa
Murle, Me'en (Bodi), Didinga
Acoli (Acholi), Lur (Alur, Luri), Lango
Mangbetu (Ngbetu), Mangbutu, Moru, Madi, Lugbara, Lendu (=Bale)
Zande (Azande, incl Nzakara)
Kerewe, Sukuma, Kwaya, Kumbi, Busiba, Gusii, Suba
Nyamwesi, Sumbwa
Chagga (Jagga; incl Wasu), Pare, Digo
Kikuyu, Chuka, Embu, Emberre, Mwimbe
Ganda, (Ba)Nyoro, Nyankole, Masaba (Gisu), Luia (=Luyia, Haya, Luhya, Bantu Kawirondo; incl. Vugusu, Maragoli)
Rwanda (incl Hutu, Tutsi, Kiga), Rundi, (Ma)Shi, Banyabungu; Rega
Congo (Koongo, Bacongo; incl Vili, Fioti, (Ma)Yombe, MuKunyi), Ndombo, Luango (Loango), Zombo (Sambo), Laadi (Laari), (Ba)Fioti, Woyo (Kiwoyo)
Aka, Baka (Badjue) and other Western (Bantu speaking) Pygmies
Enenga, Mpongwe, Kuta (Koto), Nkomi, Masango, Mindumu, Mbede, Mitsogo, Bawunga, Ndumu (Ndumbo), Duma, Teke, (B)wende
Yambasa, Banen (Tunen)
Biu-Mandara: Margi, Kilba, Bura, Kera, Karekare (Kerri-Kerri), Bachama, Zulgo, Giziga, Hdi, Kapsiki, Mandara (incl Mukulehe, Matakam), Mofu (Mofu-Gudur), Somrai (Sibine, Shibha)
Zaghawa
Northern Naga: Konyak (incl. Tangsa), Lungshang, Wancho, Nokte, Moclum, Lunshan, Chang, Maring, Naga of Myanmar
Dutch, Flemish
Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan)
Guiana Kariña, Kaliña, Galibi
Shipibo, Conibo, Setebo
Mundurucu, Curuaia
Rikbaktsa
Kpelle (incl Kono)
Manao, Katawishi (Teffé lake); groups of uncertain affiliation mostly from Rio Jamunda
Biloxi
Senufo
Fur
Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
Bhutan

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: m183a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: k37c Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 7 Weight: 429
Motif: b36b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: j35 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 11 Weight: 364
Motif: l117 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 11 Weight: 364
Motif: i28a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: i116 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 12 Weight: 333
Motif: b22a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: k47c Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: d13hh Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: m74e Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: b32 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: h31 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 9 Weight: 333
Motif: b24a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: m132 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: k181a Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 3 Weight: 333
Motif: j51a2 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: i82c1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 7 Weight: 286
Motif: j36 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 7 Weight: 286