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m78
Motif
Motif code:
m78
Name_eng:
A tiny boy (Thumbling)
Description:
Tiny boy as small as a thumb, a pea and the like taunts people, predator animals, ogres
Name_rus:
Мальчик-а-пальчик
Description_rus:
Крохотный человечек совершает серию трюков, издевается над встречными и противниками
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:
108
ATU ID:
700
Linked traditions:
Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
Arabs of Iraq
Arabs of Egypt
Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
Morocco Arabs
Algeria Arabs
Tunisia Arabs
Somali
Amhara; Zay, Harari; Silte, Gogot
Shan
Mon
Santali, Turi, Mahli
Nilgiri Hills: Toda, Kota, Kurumba (Kuruba), Badaga, Maravar, Pulaya, Adiya, Kadar, Irula
Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
Rajasthani (Radjasthan and Madhya Pradesh)
Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
Chinese folklore: Anhui, Jiangxi and data without precise provinience (incl Hakka, Min Dong)
Lepcha
Koreans; Goguryeo
Ireland
England
Scotland
Spain
Basques
Catalan
Italians: Northern (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Southern Tirol, Emilia–Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino–Alto Adige)
Sicily
Sardinia, Corsica
Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
Bretagne
French (northern France)
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
Poles
Czech
Slovakians
Hungarians
Greeks (modern)
Macedonians
Serbs, Monte Negro,
Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
Slovenians
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Albanians
Lithuanians
Latvians
Livonians
Estonians
Votians
Karelians
Vepsians
Western Sami
Eastern Sami (including Inari, Skolts)
Norwegians
Swedes
Danes
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
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)
Uzbek
Tajik
Persians
Abaza (Abazins)
Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
Nogai
Georgians
Armenians
Crimea Tatars, Karaims
Gagauz
Anatolia Turks
Kurds
Kazakh
Kirghiz
Uyghur
Turkmen
Bashkirs
Mari (Cheremis)
Mordvins
Chuvash
Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
Buryats: Western (cis Baikal)
Mongols (Khalkha)
Daur (Daghur)
Tuvinians of Tuva
Tuvinians of Southern Altai
Khakas
Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu
Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
Mustang
Arabs of Kuwait, Bahrein, Qatar, Emirates, Oman,
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)
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Ukrainians: Northern dialects
Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
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)
Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
Buryats: Eastern (trans Baikal), i.e. Khori
Arakan, Chakma, Khyang
Bhutan
Lutsi (Ludza)
Frisians
Upper Brittany
Terek Cossacks
Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
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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