m46a

Motif

Name_eng:

A stratagem: the picked up baby

Description:

Person turns into baby, is picked up by the owner of valuables, steals the valuables or makes love to a woman. The baby is not a demonic creature and does not plan to kill those who picked him up (cf. motif L60)

Name_rus:

Хитрость трикстера: подобранный младенец

Description_rus:

Персонаж превращается в младенца, подобран владельцами ценностей, после чего похищает ценности или сходится с женщиной. Младенец не является демоническим существом и не намерен убивать подобравших его (ср. мотив L60)

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

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
11.2.1.4	Central Yupik
12.2.1.3	Haida
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)
12.3.4.3	Lkungen (Straits; including Samish, Songish, Sooke, Lummi), Klallam
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
12.3.7.2	Tillamook
12.3.7.4	Alcea; Siuslaw
12.3.7.9	Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet
12.3.8.1	Kutenai
12.6.1.6	Wailaki, Mattole, Lassik, Sinkyone, Cahto
12.6.1.7	Yuki (Yuki proper, Coastal Yuki, Huchnob)
12.7.1.6	Northern Shoshone
12.7.1.7	Western Shoshone, Gosiute
14.1.4.2	Mixtec, Trique, Cuicatec; Amuzgo
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)
7.1.3.1	Torricelli family: Valman, Samap, Arapesh (Upper, Coastal), Monumbo, Lilau, Ngaimbom; Moando (Banara); Menya, Olo, Buna
7.2.5.7	Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), Nauru, Banaba (Ocean island)
9.2.3.1	Tundra Nenets
9.2.3.3	Enets
9.2.3.4	Nganasans
9.3.1.2	Dolgans