m125

Motif

Name_eng:

Eating his own eyes

Description:

Person lies to another that he is eating his eyes. The companion agrees to be blinded. The first person extracts one of companion’s eye but gives him to eat something delicious instead. The companion believes that his eyes are good to eat and agrees to be deprived of another eye too

Name_rus:

Съедает свои глаза

Description_rus:

Персонаж лжет другому, будто ест свои глаз. Другой соглашается съесть свои. Первый вырывает ему один глаз, дает вместо него нечто вкусное. Персонаж верит, что это тот самый глаз, который у него вырвали, соглашается лишиться второго

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
1.3.1.6	Ijaw (incl. Kalabari)
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
5.1.7.2	Dido (Tsez), Hunsib, Khvarshi
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.2.5	Kurds
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.2.5	Salars
5.6.3.5	Nilgiri Hills: Toda, Kota, Kurumba (Kuruba), Badaga, Maravar, Pulaya, Adiya, Kadar, Irula
6.2.1.1	Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
6.2.1.2	NE Tibetans (Amdo)
6.2.1.3	Eastern Tibetans (Kham; Sichuan, NW Yunnan)
6.2.1.4	Lavrung, Jiarong; Qiang (incl rGyalrong)
9.1.3.1	Tuvinians of Tuva
9.1.3.2	Tuvinians of Southern Altai
9.1.4.1	Buryats: Western (Cis-Baikal)
9.1.5.3	Mongols (Khalkha)
9.1.5.6	Monguor (Tu), Shirongol