m138


Motif

Motif code: 
m138
Name_eng: 
Human and animal life spans are readjusted
Description: 

God originally gives 20 or 30 years to everybody. Some animals refuse some of their years because of their sufferings. Man wants to have more years and takes them from the animals

Name_rus: 
Срок жизни людей и животных
Description_rus: 
Вначале всем было отпущено 20 или 30 лет. Для животных это много, для человека – мало. Человек получил часть срока жизни животных
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: 
36
ATU ID: 
173
Stith Thompson ID: 

Linked traditions:
Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
Algeria Arabs
Mandingo (Manden, incl San, Samo), Kagoro, Bambara (Bamana), Malinke, Kassonke, Diula
Spain
Portuguese
Catalan
Aragon
Dutch, Flemish
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
Poles
Hungarians
Greeks (modern)
Bulgarians
Serbs, Monte Negro,
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Ancient Greece
Lithuanians
Latvians
Estonians
Setu
Uzbek
Ossetians
Nogai
Kurds
Kazakh
Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
Oirats (incl Torgouts, Derbets, Oilots)
Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit
Nanai
Kumaoni (Central Pahari), incl. Garhwali
Ukrainians: Northern dialects
Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
Frisians
Rusyns, Hutsuls
Dogri

Motifs correlation (top 20):
Motif: j51a2 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: i42g3 Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 11 Weight: 818
Motif: m38d5 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 9 Weight: 778
Motif: n26 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: m78e Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: f101 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 4 Weight: 750
Motif: m168a Shared traditions: 14 All traditions: 19 Weight: 737
Motif: m179b Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 11 Weight: 727
Motif: k73a9 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
Motif: l108g Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: b104a Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 9 Weight: 667
Motif: k73b3 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: l90d Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: m74e Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: b33f1 Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 12 Weight: 667
Motif: h54a Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 8 Weight: 625
Motif: b87b Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 10 Weight: 600
Motif: b110a Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: m201 Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600