m74a

Motif

Name_eng:

Strange names of the babies

Description:

An animal person pretends to be invited to be godfather or he gives names to different places along which he travels in a sledge, boat, etc. The names look strange but become understandable when other people or animals get to know that their companion has devoured all the supplies

Name_rus:

Странные имена новорожденных

Description_rus:

Персонаж несколько раз делает вид, будто его зовут в гости в связи с рождением ребенка, либо дает названия различным урочищам, мимо которых едет или проплывает. Имена и названия звучат странно, но становятся понятны, когда выясняется, что персонаж поедал запасы

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:

ATU ID:

*15

Stith Thompson ID:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.2.4.1	Congo (Koongo, Bacongo; incl Vili, Fioti, (Ma)Yombe, MuKunyi), Ndombo, Luango (Loango), Zombo (Sambo), Laadi (Laari), (Ba)Fioti, Woyo (Kiwoyo)
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
3.1.3.2	Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
3.1.3.3	Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
3.1.3.5	Morocco Arabs
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
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
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
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)
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
3.5.2.1	Albanians
3.5.2.4	Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.1.3	Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.3	Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
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
4.1.3.3	Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
4.1.3.4	Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
4.1.3.5	Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.2.1.3	Danes
4.2.1.4	Swedes
4.2.1.5	Icelanders
4.2.1.6	Faroe Islands
4.2.2.1	Western Sami
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.3.3	Vepsians
4.2.4.1	Votians
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.2.4.4	Livonians
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)
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.3.2	Abaza (Abazins)
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.1.5.3	Kumyk, Terekemen
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Karata, Akhvakh
5.1.7.2	Dido (Tsez), Hunsib, Khvarshi
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
9.1.2.3	Chulym Turks
9.10.1.6	Negidal
9.2.1.1	Mansi
9.2.1.2	Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.2.1.3	Northern Khanty (Ostyaks)
9.2.3.1	Tundra Nenets
9.3.1.1	Central Yakuts (Sakha)
9.3.1.2	Dolgans
9.3.2.3	Baikal RegionTungus/Evenki
9.3.2.4	Ilimpii Tungus/Evenki
9.3.2.5	Yerbogachen Tungus/Evenki
9.3.4.1	Evens (Lamuts)