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Motif

Name_eng:

The turtle (toad, frog) is a tricky failure

Description:

A turtle (tortoise, toad, frog) behaves foolishly creating serious problems for himself

Name_rus:

Черепаха, жаба, лягушка – трикстер-неудачник

Description_rus:

Черепаха (жаба, лягушка) попадает в неприятные ситуации из-за собственной глупости или неосторожности

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

09 Identification of protagonists of the stories with particular animals or persons with particular qualities

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

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.2.1.3	Tswana (Chwana), Suto (Soto; incl Pedi, Mbire)
1.2.2.4	Ila (Baila)
1.2.4.1	Congo (Koongo, Bacongo; incl Vili, Fioti, (Ma)Yombe, MuKunyi), Ndombo, Luango (Loango), Zombo (Sambo), Laadi (Laari), (Ba)Fioti, Woyo (Kiwoyo)
1.2.4.2	Sakata
1.3.1.4	Igbo (Ibo); Isoko, Urhobo
1.3.1.5	Yoruba; incl Ife), Nupe, Bini (Edo), Engenni, Chamba, Dakka, Kukuruku
1.3.5.18	Wolof
1.4.3.3	Acoli (Acholi), Lur (Alur, Luri), Lango
10.2.2.1	Chinese folklore: Anhui, Jiangxi and data without precise provinience (incl Hakka, Min Dong)
10.3.2.1	Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu
12.3.6.2	Nez Perce
12.4.3.5	Western Swampy Cree (incl. Rock Cree)
14.1.4.5	Tequistlatec
14.1.4.7	Chontal
14.1.4.8	Zoque; Izapa iconography (I millennium BC)
14.1.5.2	Tzeltal
14.1.5.4	Chorti
14.1.6.3	Kekchi; Mopan
14.1.7.2	Quiche, Achí, Cakchiquel, Pocomchi, Pocomam
14.1.7.3	Tojolabal, Chuj, Jacalteca, Kanjobal, Mocho (incl Tuzantec), Acatec
14.3.1.1	Choco: Embera, Nonama (Waunana), XVI century Dabaiba, pre-Columbian iconography of Sinu
14.3.3.1	Guajiro
14.4.3.2	Kechua-speaking communities of Apurimac, Cuzco, Arequipa, Puno departments; Spanish sources of XVI-XVII centuries; Callawaya (Kechua with Pukina substratum)
15.2.2.1	Warao
15.3.7.2	Yagua
15.4.1.1	Manao, Katawishi (Teffé lake); groups of uncertain affiliation mostly from Rio Jamunda
15.4.4.1	Tenetehara
3.3.2.5	Maltese
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
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
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.2.1	Albanians
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.1.4.1	Early Russian written sources
4.2.4.2	Estonians
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.1.2	Kara Kalpak
5.6.1.1	Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
5.6.2.17	Sinhalese; Vedda
5.6.2.18	Oriya (incl. Dom/Domba/Dombo, Ghasi, Bhat and other Oriya-speaking castes of Odisha)
6.2.1.1	Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
6.2.1.2	NE Tibetans (Amdo)
6.3.1.4	Thai of Thailand
6.3.2.1	Khmer
6.3.2.10	Viet, Muong
6.4.8.3	Flores, incl Mangarai (Western Flores), Nage, Keo, Riung, Ngada or Nad'a (Central Flores), Sika (Eastern Flores)
9.3.1.1	Central Yakuts (Sakha)