m134

Motif

Name_eng:

A tower of wolves

Description:

Animals, demons or people stand one on another making a tower. The lowest one jumps off (bends, jerks), all the rest fall to the ground

Name_rus:

Башня из волков

Description_rus:

Животные, демоны или люди встают друг на друга, чтобы что-то достать. Нижний отпрыгивает (наклоняется, дергается), и все падают

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:

121

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.3.4.2	Northern Gur (Oti-Volta): Mamprussi, Dagomba, Dagari (Dagara; incl Lodaga), Bassari, Mosi, Nankanse, Konkomba, Moba; Ditammari, Nyende, Bulsa (pl Builsa, Bulo)
1.4.1.1	Nubians
1.4.1.2	Arabs of Sudan
1.4.1.3	Kordofan
1.4.3.5	Masai
10.2.4.1	Koreans; Goguryeo
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
3.1.3.2	Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
3.1.3.5	Morocco Arabs
3.2.1.3	Bilin (Blin, Bilen)
3.2.1.4	Somali
3.2.2.5	Omotic: Ari (incl Baka, Male, Schangama, Ubamer), Kafa, Dime, Banna, Basketo, Nao
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.3.1	Bretagne
3.3.3.3	Wallons, Picardie
3.3.3.4	Upper Brittany
3.3.3.5	Occitanie (southern France): Limousin, Auvergne, Provence, Aquitaine, Albret, Gers, Aveyron (Rouerge), Armagnac, Landes, Gascogne, Vivarés, Roussillon, Pyrénées, Bearne, Guyenne, Bigorre, Ain, Hautes Alpes, Ariège, Vienne, Aude, French part of Swiss
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
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
4.1.3.1	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)
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)
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.2.1.6	Faroe Islands
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.1.8.1	Terek Cossacks
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.6.2.1	Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
5.6.2.12	Marathi (incl. Bhamta; incl. Mumbai area)
5.6.2.13	Rajasthani (Radjasthan and Madhya Pradesh)
5.6.2.14	Bengali, Maithili
5.6.2.15	Assamese
5.6.2.19	Kumaoni (Central Pahari), incl. Garhwali
5.6.2.7	Nepali; Tharu
5.6.2.8	Kashmiri
5.6.3.2	Malayali; Kannikaran
5.6.3.4	Tamil, Muthuvan, Marvar
6.1.1.1	Santali, Turi, Mahli
6.4.8.5	Roti
9.1.5.3	Mongols (Khalkha)
9.1.5.7	Mongols of Inner Mongolia