m106a

Motif

Name_eng:

“Myself” and “Nobody” in demon’s house

Description:

After doing damage or inflicting injury, person lies that his name is Nobody, Myself or the like. Usually others believe that the injured one was the trouble-maker himself

Name_rus:

«Я сам» и «Никто» в доме демона

Description_rus:

Персонаж, причинивший ущерб, называет себя выдуманным именем типа «Никто», «Я Сам» и т.п. Обычно другие решают, что пострадавший сам виноват в том, что случилось

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
3.3.1.5	Basques
3.3.3.1	Bretagne
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.3.3.3	Wallons, Picardie
3.3.4.3	Scotland
3.3.4.4	England
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
3.4.1.1	Ancient Greece
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
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)
4.1.3.3	Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.2.1.4	Swedes
4.2.2.1	Western Sami
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.2.4.4	Livonians
4.2.5.1	Latvians
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
5.1.6.1	Ingush
5.1.8.1	Terek Cossacks
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.5.2.3	Dungan of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan
6.2.1.1	Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
6.2.1.3	Eastern Tibetans (Kham; Sichuan, NW Yunnan)
9.1.5.2	Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)