m74a


Motif

Motif code: 
m74a
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: 
83
ATU ID: 
*15
Stith Thompson ID: 

Linked traditions:
Arabs of Egypt
Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
Morocco Arabs
Algeria Arabs
Congo (Koongo, Bacongo; incl Vili, Fioti, (Ma)Yombe, MuKunyi), Ndombo, Luango (Loango), Zombo (Sambo), Laadi (Laari), (Ba)Fioti, Woyo (Kiwoyo)
Ireland
Scotland
Spain
Portuguese
Catalan
French (northern France)
Dutch, Flemish
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
Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
Hungarians
Greeks (modern)
Bulgarians
Macedonians
Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
Slovenians
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Albanians
Lithuanians
Latvians
Livonians
Setu
Votians
Finns
Karelians
Vepsians
Western Sami
Norwegians
Swedes
Danes
Byelarusians
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)
Tajik
Abaza (Abazins)
Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
Karachays, Balkar
Ossetians
Avar, Andi, Akhvakh
Dido (Tsez), Hunsib, Khvarshi
Kumyk, Terekemen
Georgians
Anatolia Turks
Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
Kazakh
Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
Bashkirs
Mari (Cheremis)
Mordvins
Chuvash
Udmurt
Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
Mansi
Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks)
Tundra Nenets
Central Yakuts (Sakha)
Dolgans
Baikal RegionTungus/Evenki
Evens (Lamuts)
Negidal
Chulym Turks
Northern Khanty (Ostyaks)
Wallons, Picardie
Icelanders
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Ukrainians: Northern dialects
Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
Lutsi (Ludza)
Frisians
Faroe Islands
Rusyns, Hutsuls
Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
Ilimpii Tungus/Evenki
Yerbogachen Tungus/Evenki
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

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