m152b

Motif

Name_eng:

Brave donkey and cowardly lion

Description:

Getting to see a donkey (horse, deer) for the first time, a strong predator thinks that this animal is dangerous. His further interpretation of the herbivorous’ behavior supports this impression

Name_rus:

Храбрый осел и трусливый лев

Description_rus:

Впервые видя осла (коня, оленя), крупный хищник думает, что тот силен и опасен. Дальнейшее поведение травоядного убеждает хищника в правильности первого впечатления

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:

103C*

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
10.2.1.1	Early Chinese written sources
10.2.2.5	Jiangsu and Zhejang Chinese
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.2.2	Sicily
3.3.2.3	Sardinia, Corsica
3.3.2.6	Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
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
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.2.2.5	Kurds
5.3.2.5	Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.4.2.4	Highland Tajik
5.4.3.3	Yazgulami
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.1.2	Kara Kalpak
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
5.6.2.1	Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India