m45

Motif

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:

Stith Thompson ID:

K751

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.2.1.1	Kosa (Xosa, Xhosa)
1.2.3.3	Mbundu (Umbundu, Kimbundu, Chimbundu, Ovimbundu), Kwanyama, Owambo (=Ambo)
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)
1.3.2.1	Hausa
1.3.3.4	Fon
1.3.3.5	Ewe
1.3.5.12	Susu
1.3.5.13	Soninke
1.4.5.4	Kanuri
12.4.2.1	Menominee
12.4.2.4	Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
12.4.3.4	Eastern Swamy Cree
12.5.2.2	Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)
12.6.5.7	Chumash
12.8.1.3	Western Keres (Acoma, Laguna)
12.8.2.1	Eastern Keres (Cochiti, Sia, San Felipe, Santo Domingo, Santa Ana, Paguate, Seama)
12.8.3.1	Navajo
12.8.3.5	Western Apache (White Mountain, San Carlos)
13.3.3.1	Creek, Seminole; Tuskegee; iconography of Kentucky Hopewell
13.3.4.1	Cherokee
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.3.8	Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.2.3.1	Finns
5.1.7.3	Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi
6.1.1.5	Kharia
6.1.1.5	Kharia
6.2.3.4	Northern Naga: Konyak (incl. Tangsa), Lungshang, Wancho, Nokte, Moclum, Lunshan, Chang, Maring, Naga of Myanmar