m91c3

Motif

Name_eng:

Hare the messenger

Description:

After warning his wife about the planned trick, person lets free a wild animal or bird asking it to pass a message to his wife. Seeing the same (actually another) animal or bird in his companion’s house another man buys the animal for a lot of money

Name_rus:

Заяц-почтарь

Description_rus:

Заранее договорившись с женой, человек выпускает животное или птицу – якобы с поручением жене приготовить еду и т.п. Другой не понимает обмана и покупает животное

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
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)
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.2.8	Italians: Northeast (Trentino – Alto Adige, Veneto, Venezia Giulia, Southern Tirol, Friuli, Istria)
3.3.3.3	Wallons, Picardie
3.3.4.1	Ireland
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
3.5.2.1	Albanians
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.4.1	Gagauz
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.1.5.3	Kumyk, Terekemen
5.1.7.3	Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi
5.1.8.1	Terek Cossacks
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.3.2.3	Arabs of Iraq
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
5.4.2.4	Highland Tajik
5.4.2.6	Pashto
5.4.2.8	Uzbek
5.4.3.2	Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
5.6.2.15	Assamese
6.1.1.1	Santali, Turi, Mahli
6.1.1.1	Santali, Turi, Mahli
6.4.3.2	Batak (Toba, Dairi)
9.1.1.2	Southern Altai: Teleut
9.1.2.1	Shor
9.1.3.1	Tuvinians of Tuva
9.1.3.2	Tuvinians of Southern Altai
9.2.2.4	Northern Selkups