m137

Motif

Name_eng:

The weak predator imitates the strong one

Description:

The weak predator tries to imitate the strong one but is unable to accomplish actions that the strong one does easily

Name_rus:

Слабый хищник подражает сильному

Description_rus:

Более слабый хищник пытается подражать более сильному, но не может совершить действия, которые сильный совершает легко

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Motif group:

Motif analysis result:

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

Keywords:

jackal a failure

Keywords_rus:

шакал-неудачник

ATU ID:

47D

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.3.2.6	Mukulu (Mokilko)
1.4.5.2	Sara, incl. Ngambaye (Ngambaï), Mbaï
1.4.5.3	Zaghawa
3.1.3.3	Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.5.3	Germans: Northwest (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl. East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen
3.4.1.1	Ancient Greece
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.1.5.3	Kumyk, Terekemen
5.1.6.1	Ingush
5.1.7.5	Lezgians, Archin, Kürin; Khinalug
5.2.2.5	Kurds
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.4.2.6	Pashto
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.6.1.1	Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
5.6.2.17	Sinhalese; Vedda
6.1.2.5	Maria, Muria, and other South-Central Dravidians: Binjhwar, Baсор, Bhattra, Bom, Jhoria (=Jhodia), Gadaba (in Koraput, neighbors of Munda-speaking Gadaba), Duruwa (Parji), Mehtar; Pardhan
6.2.1.1	Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)