m39a

Motif

Name_eng:

Fool takes off boots from animals’ legs

Description:

Two or three brothers live together (with their mother). One of them makes stupid actions like (all or some of them): lets free animals that got into a snare but kills his mother; cuts off the legs of domestic animals or flays them; thinks that a certain place on a head of a baby is a tumor, sucks baby's brains out; cuts a cloth into pieces and ties them to reeds of to branches of a tree; hearing a murmur of water throws food into the water; tries to build a hut not on a river bank but in the river

Name_rus:

Олени не хотят мочить обувь

Description_rus:

Двое или трое братьев живут вместе (с матерью). Один из них совершает нелепые поступки (все или часть из перечисленного): выпускает из капкана животных, убивает попавшую в капкан мать; отрубает домашним животным ноги или сдирает с ног шкуру; принимает родничок на черепе ребенка за чирей и выдавливает его; рвет большой кусок ткани и привязывает куски к колыхающимся тростинкам; слыша журчание воды, бросает в воду еду; ставит чум в воде

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
11.1.1.2	Tundra (Lower Kolyma) Yukaghir (Waduls)
11.1.2.1	Chukchi
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
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
4.2.2.2	Eastern Sami (including Inari, Skolts)
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
5.5.2.2	Yugur (Sarïg Yogïr, Yellow Uyghur)
5.5.2.3	Dungan of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan
5.5.2.5	Salars
6.1.1.1	Santali, Turi, Mahli
6.2.1.2	NE Tibetans (Amdo)
6.2.2.8	Bhutan
9.1.1.3	Northern Altai: Chelkan, Kumanda, Tubalar
9.1.3.1	Tuvinians of Tuva
9.1.5.4	Daur (Daghur)
9.2.3.1	Tundra Nenets
9.2.3.2	Forest Nenets
9.2.3.3	Enets
9.2.3.4	Nganasans
9.3.1.1	Central Yakuts (Sakha)
9.3.1.3	Western Yakuts (Sakha): Olekma and Vilyuy Basins
9.3.1.5	Northeastern Yakuts (Sakha): Yana, Indigirka and Kolyma Basins
9.3.2.1	Western Tungus/Evenki: Podkamennaya Tunguska, Katanga, Nepa, Kamenka, Upper Lena
9.3.2.2	Sym Tungus/Evenki
9.3.2.3	Baikal RegionTungus/Evenki
9.3.2.4	Ilimpii Tungus/Evenki
9.3.3.1	Tungus.Evenki) of Russian Far East
9.3.4.1	Evens (Lamuts)