m38 | MapsOfMyths

Name_eng:

Stupid imitation (all versions)

Description:

Person sees how others act using magic or according to their animal nature. He or she imitates their actions and gets into trouble. Actions are not heroic deeds, competitions or tests and refer to everyday activity, mostly to providing and cooking food

Name_rus:

Неумелое подражание (все версии)

Description_rus:

Персонаж видит, как другие действуют с помощью магии или приемов, отвечающих их природе (в Африке также – обмана). Он или она подражает их действиям, но терпит фиаско. Действия не имеют характера испытаний или соревнований и не связаны с совершением подвигов. Это бытовые действия, чаще всего связанные с добыванием или приготовлением пищи

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:

212

Areal ID	Tradition
1.2.1.4	Ndebele, Pedi, Thonga (incl Ronga), Hlengwe, Matabele (Tebele)
1.2.2.2	Bemba (Wemba, Babemba; incl Ambo, Lala, Lamba, Bisa), Holoholo, Kaonde
1.2.4.2	Sakata
1.2.4.7	Luba (Baluba, Luba-Katanga, Shaba), (Ba)Holoholo, Tumbwe, Bena-Piana, Tabwa, Benabena-Mitumba, Zela, Bene-Marungu
1.2.4.9	Songe (Kisonge), Bena-Matembo
1.2.5.1	Ganda, (Ba)Nyoro, Nyankole, Masaba (Gisu), Luia (=Luyia, Haya, Luhya, Bantu Kawirondo; incl. Vugusu, Maragoli)
1.2.5.10	Safwa, Nyika (Nyixa, Nyiha), Mkulwe, Ngonde, Kinga, Nyakusa, Nyamwanga
1.2.5.11	Hehe, Pangwa (Upper Rufudji area), Bena, Matumbi, Ngoni, Pogolo, (Ma)konde, Mawiha
1.2.5.12	Swahili, Midjikenda (incl Giryama), Nyika, Duruma; Ngindo, Kiluguru and other Islamic groups of the Eastern Coast of Africa
1.2.5.3	Nyatutu, Kiniramba, Isanzu
1.2.5.6	Kamba, Tharaka
1.2.5.8	Chagga (Jagga; incl Wasu), Pare, Digo
1.2.5.9	Gogo, Kaguru, Luguru, Zigula, Taveta, Shambala (Šambala), Bondei, Taeta, Dabida; Zaramo
1.2.6.3	Fang (Pangwe), Eton, Bafia, Batanga, Benga, Bube (Bubi), Buheba, Yaunde (Ewondo), Yebekolo, Koko, Bulu, Beti (Beti-Bulu), Sekiani, Eghap
1.2.6.5	Aka, Baka (Badjue) and other Western (Bantu speaking) Pygmies
1.3.1.2	Tiv, Bamum (Bamun), Mungaka (Mgaka, Bali), Beba, Anaguta, Bete (Mbete, Karang), Ekoi, Nyang, Vute (Wute), Jukun, Chamba, Bamileke, Kwotto, Kirri; Denya (Nyang)
1.3.1.3	Cross-River: Efik, Ibibio, Anaang (Anang), Ikom, Abua
1.3.1.6	Ijaw (incl. Kalabari)
1.3.2.2	Biu-Mandara: Margi, Kilba, Bura, Kera, Karekare (Kerri-Kerri), Bachama, Zulgo, Giziga, Hdi, Kapsiki, Mandara (incl Mukulehe, Matakam), Mofu (Mofu-Gudur), Somrai (Sibine, Shibha)
1.3.2.6	Mukulu (Mokilko)
1.3.3.1	Bia: Anyi, Agni, Baule, Nsema
1.3.4.2	Northern Gur (Oti-Volta): Mamprussi, Dagomba, Dagari (Dagara; incl Lodaga), Bassari, Mosi, Nankanse, Konkomba, Moba; Ditammari, Nyende, Bulsa (pl Builsa, Bulo)
1.3.4.6	Songhai
1.3.5.10	Mende, Loma, Gbunde (Gbandi, Bandi)
1.3.5.7	Kru: Kru proper, Sapo (Sapã), Grebo, Kran (Krahn, Guere-Krahn; incl. Putu, Tchien), Bete, Neyo, Wobe, Devoin (Dey), Belle (Kuwaa), Bassa, Sikon
1.4.1.1	Nubians
1.4.1.2	Arabs of Sudan
1.4.2.2	Shilluk, Anuak
1.4.3.3	Acoli (Acholi), Lur (Alur, Luri), Lango
1.4.3.4	Dholuo (=Luo, Nilotic Kawirondo)
1.4.3.6	Kalenjin; including Sabaot, Nandi (Nande), Arusha, Kipsigis, Pokot (Suk), Keiyo (Elgeiyo), Marakwet, Sebeei
1.4.4.1	Mangbetu (Ngbetu), Mangbutu, Moru, Madi, Lugbara, Lendu (=Bale)
1.4.4.2	Efe Pygmies, Kango (Mbuti) Pygmies
1.4.4.4	Zande (Azande, incl Nzakara)
1.4.5.2	Sara, incl. Ngambaye (Ngambaï), Mbaï
1.4.6.2	Sandawe
11.1.1.1	Forest (Upper Kolyma) Yukaghir (Oduls)
11.1.3.2	Maritime Koryak (Alyutor)
11.2.1.1	Asiatic Eskimo (Sirenek, Naukan, Chaplino)
12.1.2.2	Tagish
12.2.1.2	Tlingit
12.2.1.3	Haida
12.2.1.4	Tsimshian
12.2.2.2	Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)
12.2.2.3	Bella Coola (Nuxalk)
12.2.2.4	Nootka (Nu-chah-nulth), Makah
12.3.1.1	Carrier
12.3.1.2	Chilkotin
12.3.2.1	Shuswap
12.3.2.2	Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)
12.3.2.3	Lillooet
12.3.3.1	Okanagon, Sanpoil
12.3.3.2	Coeur D'Alene, Kalispel (Pend d'Oreille; incl Spokane)
12.3.4.2	Sechelt (incl Sisiatl), Squamish, Halcomelem
12.3.4.3	Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam
12.3.4.5	Twana (Skokomish)
12.3.4.6	Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, (Lower) Cowlitz
12.3.5.1	Quinault
12.3.5.2	Quileute, Chemakum (Hoh)
12.3.6.1	Western Sahaptin (Upper Cowlitz, Klikitat, Tenino, Umatilla, Yakima, Wallawalla)
12.3.6.2	Nez Perce
12.3.7.1	Lower Chinook (Chinook proper)
12.3.7.9	Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet
12.3.8.1	Kutenai
12.4.1.1	Winnebago
12.4.2.1	Menominee
12.4.2.10	Miami, Illini
12.4.2.4	Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
12.4.2.5	Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario)
12.4.2.8	Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo
12.4.3.2	Montagnais
12.4.3.3	Naskapi
12.5.1.1	Micmac
12.5.1.3	Wawenock, Abenaki, Penobscot
12.5.2.2	Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)
12.6.1.1	Yurok
12.6.3.3	Wintu, Patwin, Nomlaki
12.6.5.6	Kawaiisu
12.6.5.7	Chumash
12.6.6.1	Serrano
12.6.6.4	Luiseño, Juaneño
12.7.1.5	Eastern Shoshone
12.7.1.6	Northern Shoshone
12.7.1.7	Western Shoshone, Gosiute
12.7.1.9	Ute
12.8.1.1	Hopi
12.8.1.3	Western Keres (Acoma, Laguna)
12.8.2.1	Eastern Keres (Cochiti, Sia, San Felipe, Santo Domingo, Santa Ana, Paguate, Seama)
12.8.2.2	Tewa (San Juan, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, Tesuque, Nambé; Hano), Tiwa (Taos, Picuris; Sandia, Isleta), Towa (Jemez)
12.8.3.1	Navajo
12.8.3.2	Jicarilla
12.8.3.3	Chiricahua
12.8.3.4	Mescalero
12.8.3.6	Lipan
12.8.4.1	Upland Yuma: Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai
12.8.4.2	Diegueño: Ipai, Tipai, Kamia (Kumeai)
12.8.4.4	Yuma proper (Quechan), Mohave, Maricopa
13.1.2.1	Assiniboine
13.1.3.4	Arikara
13.1.4.3	Santee
13.1.4.4	Osage
13.1.4.6	Omaha, Ponca
13.1.4.8	Iowa
13.1.5.1	Arapaho
13.2.2.1	Kiowa Apache
13.3.1.2	Yuchi
13.3.2.2	Natchez (incl Avoyel)
13.3.3.1	Creek, Seminole; Tuskegee; iconography of Kentucky Hopewell
13.3.3.2	Alabama, Koasati
13.3.3.3	Hitchiti
13.3.4.1	Cherokee
13.3.4.2	Catawba, Tutelo
14.1.1.1	Warihio (Guarijío), Tarahumara
14.1.1.5	Cora
14.1.1.7	Western Mexico Nahuatl
15.2.3.6	Guiana Kariña, Kaliña, Galibi
15.2.3.8	Macuxi
15.2.3.9	Wapishana (incl Ataroi); Mapidian; Taruma
15.3.2.2	Napo (Quijo), Kanelo (“Jungle Kechua”)
15.4.1.3	Maue (Mawe)
15.4.3.5	Lower Amazon (XIX century data, mostly from Santarem area), tribal affiliation unknown
15.4.4.1	Tenetehara
15.6.1.1	Mundurucu, Curuaia
15.6.3.2	Kayabi
16.1.4.1	Makka
16.1.4.3	Toba (incl Pilaga)
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
3.1.2.2	Arabs of Libya
3.1.3.5	Morocco Arabs
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs
3.1.3.7	Tunisia Arabs
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.2.1	Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)
3.3.2.2	Sicily
3.3.2.4	Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.3.2.8	Italians: Northeast (Trentino – Alto Adige, Veneto, Venezia Giulia, Southern Tirol, Friuli, Istria)
3.3.3.1	Bretagne
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.3.3.3	Wallons, Picardie
3.3.3.5	Occitanie (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
3.3.4.1	Ireland
3.3.4.3	Scotland
3.3.4.4	England
3.3.5.2	Frisians
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
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.3.5.6	Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
3.3.5.7	Eastern Prussia
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
3.5.2.1	Albanians
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.1.2	Kashubians, Poles of Polish Pomorie
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.1.3.1	Russians: 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)
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.1.3.6	Russians: Southern part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Belgorod, Voronezh, Tambov, Penza, Lipetsk, Orel, Kursk, Bryansk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Samara, Simbirsk and Saratov provinces)
4.1.3.7	Russian Pomors ("seasiders"): Lower Pechora
4.1.3.8	Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.2.1.3	Danes
4.2.1.3	Danes
4.2.1.4	Swedes
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.4.5	Lutsi (Ludza)
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.8.1	Terek Cossacks
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.3.2.3	Arabs of Iraq
5.3.2.4	Saudi Arabia
5.3.2.6	Arabs of Kuwait, Bahrein, Qatar, Emirates, Oman,
5.3.3.1	Yemen
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.6.2.16	Konkani (including local component in Goa folklore)
5.6.2.19	Kumaoni (Central Pahari), incl. Garhwali
5.6.2.7	Nepali; Tharu
6.1.2.1	Oraon (Kurukh)
6.2.1.1	Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
6.2.1.2	NE Tibetans (Amdo)
6.2.2.7	Toto, Rabha (northern Western Bengalia)
6.2.2.8	Bhutan
6.2.3.3	Chin-Naga: Ao, Mao, Sema, Zeme, Liangmai, Kolren, Kom, Lhota, Rengma, Angami, Kabui, Tangkhul, Koirenf
6.2.3.4	Northern Naga: Konyak (incl. Tangsa), Lungshang, Wancho, Nokte, Moclum, Lunshan, Chang, Maring, Naga of Myanmar
6.3.2.10	Viet, Muong
6.4.4.1	Ot Danum, Ngaju, Maanyan (Ma'anyan)
9.10.1.1	Nanai
9.10.1.3	Udeghe
9.10.1.4	Oroch
9.2.1.1	Mansi
9.2.1.3	Northern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.2.2.3	Southern Selkups
9.2.3.1	Tundra Nenets
9.2.3.3	Enets
9.2.3.4	Nganasans