m126

Motif

Name_eng:

The speaking skull

Description:

Person comes across speaking head, skull or tortoise and tells others about his experience. When the information is controlled, the skull keeps silence and the man is punished as a liar

Name_rus:

Говорящий череп

Description_rus:

Человек видит говорящий череп (черепаху) и сообщает об этом вождю, королю. В присутствии короля череп (черепаха) молчит, нашедший обвинен во лжи и наказан

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.

4. All motifs of category 1 (cosmology) in sub-Saharan Africa and those motifs of category 2 (adventures) which are found in sub-Saharan Africa and widespread in the Indo-Pacific world with scarce or no cases in Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.2.3.3	Mbundu (Umbundu, Kimbundu, Chimbundu, Ovimbundu), Kwanyama, Owambo (=Ambo)
1.2.4.1	Congo (Koongo, Bacongo; incl Vili, Fioti, (Ma)Yombe, MuKunyi), Ndombo, Luango (Loango), Zombo (Sambo), Laadi (Laari), (Ba)Fioti, Woyo (Kiwoyo)
1.3.1.2	Tiv, Bamum (Bamun), Mungaka (Mgaka, Bali), Beba, Anaguta, Bete (Mbete, Karang), Ekoi, Nyang, Vute (Wute), Jukun, Chamba, Bamileke, Kwotto, Kirri; Denya (Nyang)
1.3.1.3	Cross-River: Efik, Ibibio, Anaang (Anang), Ikom, Abua
1.3.1.5	Yoruba; incl Ife), Nupe, Bini (Edo), Engenni, Chamba, Dakka, Kukuruku
1.3.2.1	Hausa
1.3.3.2	Akan, Ashanti, Akwapim; Ga (Accra), Kra, Twi (Chwi, Chi)
3.1.3.3	Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
3.1.3.4	Western Sahara and Mauritania Arabs; Berbers of Mauritania (Zénaga)
3.2.2.1	Amhara; Zay, Harari; Silte, Gogot
5.3.2.4	Saudi Arabia
5.6.2.20	Maldives
6.3.1.2	Karen, Pa-O, Padaung, Kayah
6.3.1.4	Thai of Thailand
6.3.2.1	Khmer
6.4.7.6	Sulu: Mapun, Samal, Sama, Taosug (Tausug), Badjaw