m125


Motif

Motif code: 
m125
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: 
20

Linked traditions:
Ijaw (incl. Kalabari)
Nilgiri Hills: Toda, Kota, Kurumba (Kuruba), Badaga, Maravar, Pulaya, Adiya, Kadar, Irula
Lavrung, Jiarong; Qiang (incl rGyalrong)
Persians
Karachays, Balkar
Dido (Tsez), Hunsib, Khvarshi
Georgians
Kalmyk
Kurds
Kazakh
Mordvins
Buryats: Western (cis Baikal)
Mongols (Khalkha)
Monguor (Tu), Shirongol
Tuvinians of Tuva
Tuvinians of Southern Altai
Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
NE Tibetans (Amdo)
Eastern Tibetans (Kham; Sichuan, NW Yunnan)
Salars

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: i20b Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 5 Weight: 800
Motif: m109a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: m100a Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: i27d Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: m194 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 8 Weight: 625
Motif: m21b Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 8 Weight: 625
Motif: a12g Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: m99a1 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 8 Weight: 500
Motif: b68a Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: k27n3a1 Shared traditions: 1 All traditions: 2 Weight: 500
Motif: k32e Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 12 Weight: 500
Motif: k38b1 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 4 Weight: 500
Motif: n37 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: l122a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: k27u2 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: k56b2 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: b47a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 6 Weight: 500
Motif: m60a2 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 15 Weight: 467
Motif: a37b Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 9 Weight: 444