m45


Motif

Motif code: 
m45
Name_eng: 
A predator tricks animals to gather around him
Description: 

An ogre or a stronger animal catches a man or a weaker animal or drives him into a small enclosure. He goes away for a while leaving a watchman. The watchman is unable to fulfill his duty and the man (the weak animal) escapes (usually he dupes the watchman). Most, though hardly all American cases can have post-Columbian African origin

Name_rus: 
Хищник притворяется мертвым
Description_rus: 
Сильный персонаж загоняет слабого в ловушку и оставляет кого-нибудь сторожить добычу. Сторож не справляется со своими обязанностями (обычно одурачен слабым), слабый 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)
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: 
30
Stith Thompson ID: 
K751

Linked traditions:
Mbundu (Umbundu, Kimbundu, Chimbundu, Ovimbundu), Kwanyama, Owambo (=Ambo)
Kosa (Xosa, Xhosa)
Tiv, Bamum (Bamun), Mungaka (Mgaka, Bali), Beba, Anaguta, Bete (Mbete, Karang), Ekoi, Nyang, Vute (Wute), Jukun, Chamba, Bamileke, Kwotto, Kirri; Denya (Nyang)
Hausa
Kanuri
Susu
Soninke
Fon
Ewe
Kharia
Kharia
Northern Naga: Konyak (incl. Tangsa), Lungshang, Wancho, Nokte, Moclum, Lunshan, Chang, Maring, Naga of Myanmar
Spain
Greeks (modern)
Finns
Norwegians
Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi
Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
Eastern Swamy Cree
Menominee
Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)
Creek, Seminole; Tuskegee; iconography of Kentucky Hopewell
Cherokee
Chumash
Navajo
Western Apache (White Mountain, San Carlos)
Western Keres (Acoma, Laguna)
Eastern Keres (Cochiti, Sia, San Felipe, Santo Domingo, Santa Ana, Paguate, Seama)
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: f45a1 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: i50a1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: b95a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: b95 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: l85e Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: m61a3 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: j12m Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: b5c Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: m62f Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 9 Weight: 444
Motif: b65 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: b1b Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: k104 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: k105 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: m55 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 5 Weight: 400
Motif: a38a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: j12l Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: k10c Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 8 Weight: 375
Motif: f9g1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333
Motif: b42a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 6 Weight: 333