m117

Motif

Name_eng:

Head under wing

Description:

Fox or other predator asks a bird what does it do when the wind blows. When the bird demonstrates how it puts its head under its wing, the fox kills it

Name_rus:

Голову под крыло

Description_rus:

Лиса или другой хищник спрашивает птицу, что та делает, когда дует ветер. Птица показывает, как она кладет голову под крыло, лиса хватает ее

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:

56D

Stith Thompson ID:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.1.1.2	Khoekhoe (=Hottentot; incl Nama, Korana); Damara
10.2.2.1	Chinese folklore: Anhui, Jiangxi and data without precise provinience (incl Hakka, Min Dong)
10.3.2.1	Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu
3.1.3.5	Morocco Arabs
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs
3.3.5.4	Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.2.5.1	Latvians
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.7.5	Lezgians, Archin, Kürin; Khinalug
5.3.2.5	Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
5.6.1.1	Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples