m124


Motif

Motif code: 
m124
Name_eng: 
A bull’s tail
Description: 

Person buries a tail or head of a bull or other domestic animal with a tail or horns outside. He explains that the animal sank into the ground and usually asks the others to pull the tail (horns). When they are “torn off”, he tells that people are guilty of the animal being lost

Name_rus: 
Бычий хвост
Description_rus: 
Персонаж закапывает хвост (голову, уши) домашнего животного, уверяя, что оно ушло в землю. Обычно он просит других тянуть за хвост (голову) и когда тот "отрывается", обвиняет других в том, что скотина пропала
Motif analysis result tradition count all: 
100
ATU ID: 
1004
Stith Thompson ID: 

Linked traditions:
Arabs of Libya
Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
Arabs of Sudan
Nubians
Shilluk, Anuak
Murle, Me'en (Bodi), Didinga
Somali
Geez, Tigrai, Tigre
Malawi (incl Nyanja, Banyanja, Manganja), Tumbuka (incl Henga), Nsenga, Matengo, (Ba)Wenda
Kerewe, Sukuma, Kwaya, Kumbi, Busiba, Gusii, Suba
Nyatutu, Kiniramba, Isanzu
Kikuyu, Chuka, Embu, Emberre, Mwimbe
Kamba, Tharaka
Safwa, Nyika (Nyixa, Nyiha), Mkulwe, Ngonde, Kinga, Nyakusa, Nyamwanga
Ganda, (Ba)Nyoro, Nyankole, Masaba (Gisu), Luia (=Luyia, Haya, Luhya, Bantu Kawirondo; incl. Vugusu, Maragoli)
Rwanda (incl Hutu, Tutsi, Kiga), Rundi, (Ma)Shi, Banyabungu; Rega
Sara, incl. Ngambaye (Ngambaï), Mbaï
Mandingo (Manden, incl San, Samo), Kagoro, Bambara (Bamana), Malinke, Kassonke, Diula
Dan (=Gio), Guro (=Kweni, incl Gagu, Neio), Toura, Mano, Ngere, Beng, Guro
Songhai
Northern Gur (Oti-Volta): Mamprussi, Dagomba, Dagari (Dagara; incl Lodaga), Bassari, Mosi, Nankanse, Konkomba, Moba; Ditammari, Nyende, Bulsa (pl Builsa, Bulo)
Bia: Anyi, Agni, Baule, Nsema
Mandjak, Mankanya, Pepel, Balant, Felupe, Diola (Jola)
Tenda (incl Bedik, Basari), Biafada, Nalu, Pajadinka, Badyara (Badiaranke)
Temne (Timne)
Sandawe
Ceram: Alune and Wemale (West Ceram), Patasiwa (Ceram), Honitetu (West Ceram Highlands); Nusawele, Hatuolu, Huaolu, Patasiwa; Ambon; Buru
Bidayuh (incl. Maloh), Iban (Sea Dayak), Sakarram; Brunei
Viet, Muong
Kachin (Jingpho), Chak, Maru
Tamil, Muthuvan, Marvar
Bengali, Maithili
Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China
Chinese folklore: Anhui, Jiangxi and data without precise provinience (incl Hakka, Min Dong)
Lavrung, Jiarong; Qiang (incl rGyalrong)
Wales
Spain
Portuguese
Basques
Catalan
Aragon
Italians: Northern (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Southern Tirol, Emilia–Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino–Alto Adige)
Sicily
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
Poles
Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
Czech
Slovakians
Greeks (modern)
Bulgarians
Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
Slovenians
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Lithuanians
Latvians
Estonians
Finns
Karelians
Western Sami
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)
Yagnobi
Highland Tajik
Bukhara Arabs
Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
Abkhaz
Karachays, Balkar
Crimea Tatars, Karaims
Anatolia Turks
Kazakh
Kirghiz
Uyghur
Turkmen
Bashkirs
Mordvins
Udmurt
Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)
Mongols (Khalkha)
Kpelle (incl Kono)
Eastern Tibetans (Kham; Sichuan, NW Yunnan)
Wallons, Picardie
Salars
Wolof
Galicians
Galicians
Icelanders
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
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
Bhutan
Frisians
Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)

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