m127a

Motif

Name_eng:

The quail makes the fox laugh

Description:

Trickster animal asks a bird to make him laugh. The bird sits on the head of a woman (child, cow, etc.), other person tries to kill the bird, hits the wife (breaks cow's horn, etc.). Or the bird distracts person attention to let the trickster steal the person’s food

Name_rus:

Птица смешит лису

Description_rus:

В ответ на просьбу персонажа рассмешить или накормить его, птица садится человеку или скотине на голову либо на хрупкий предмет. Другой человек пытается подбить птицу, убивает или калечит того, на кого птица села, разбивает предмет. Либо птица отвлекает внимание человека и в это время персонаж съедает еду, которую человек нес

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:

223

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.2.5.12	Swahili, Midjikenda (incl Giryama), Nyika, Duruma; Ngindo, Kiluguru and other Islamic groups of the Eastern Coast of Africa
10.2.3.2	Lisu, Achang, Taunyo
10.2.4.1	Koreans; Goguryeo
3.1.3.2	Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
3.1.3.3	Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
3.1.3.5	Morocco Arabs
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.1.5	Basques
3.3.2.1	Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)
3.3.2.3	Sardinia, Corsica
3.3.3.4	Upper Brittany
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
3.5.2.1	Albanians
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
3.5.3.3	Transylvanian Saksons
3.5.4.1	Gagauz
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.3	Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.1.3.4	Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
4.1.3.6	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)
4.2.1.3	Danes
4.2.2.2	Eastern Sami (including Inari, Skolts)
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.2.4.5	Lutsi (Ludza)
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.1.3.2	Abaza (Abazins)
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.1.5.3	Kumyk, Terekemen
5.1.6.1	Ingush
5.1.7.9	Tats
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.3.2.7	Nawar (Zutt)
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.4.2.4	Highland Tajik
5.4.2.6	Pashto
5.4.2.8	Uzbek
5.4.3.1	Yagnobi
5.4.3.2	Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi
5.4.3.4	Sarikoli
5.4.4.2	Dards (Kalash, Kho, Kohistani, Shina, Pashai)
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.1.2	Kara Kalpak
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
5.6.2.19	Kumaoni (Central Pahari), incl. Garhwali
5.6.2.9	Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
6.1.2.3	Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)
6.3.1.8	Zhuang, Dong, Dai
9.1.2.2	Khakas
9.1.5.3	Mongols (Khalkha)