m154


Motif

Motif code: 
m154
Name_eng: 
The animal language and the stubborn wife
Description: 

A man obtains knowledge of animal languages but if he reveals the secret, he must die. Once he hears animals talking and laughs. His wife thinks that he laughs at her or at her mother. The man is ready to open his secret and either does it and dies or hears how animals (usually a cock) blame him for being so foolish. So he keeps his secret.

Name_rus: 
Язык животных и упрямая жена
Description_rus: 
Человек, научившийся языку животных, смеется, услышав их разговор. Жена или теща требует, чтобы он объяснил, в чем дело. Человек готов выполнить требование жены, хотя знает, что умрет, сообщив секрет. Обычно он слышит, как домашние животные осуждают глупость хозяина, и решает ничего не рассказывать
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: 
114
ATU ID: 
670
Stith Thompson ID: 

Linked traditions:
Yemen
Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
Arabs of Egypt
Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
Morocco Arabs
Malagasy
Arabs of Sudan
Nubians
Saho, Afar
Dinka, Atuot, Nuer
Geez, Tigrai, Tigre
Amhara; Zay, Harari; Silte, Gogot
Swahili, Midjikenda (incl Giryama), Nyika, Duruma; Ngindo, Kiluguru and other Islamic groups of the Eastern Coast of Africa
Congo (Koongo, Bacongo; incl Vili, Fioti, (Ma)Yombe, MuKunyi), Ndombo, Luango (Loango), Zombo (Sambo), Laadi (Laari), (Ba)Fioti, Woyo (Kiwoyo)
Mbundu (Umbundu, Kimbundu, Chimbundu, Ovimbundu), Kwanyama, Owambo (=Ambo)
Duala (Douala), Basa (Basaá), Kwiri (Kweli), Isubu
Fang (Pangwe), Eton, Bafia, Batanga, Benga, Bube (Bubi), Buheba, Yaunde (Ewondo), Yebekolo, Koko, Bulu, Beti (Beti-Bulu), Sekiani, Eghap
Yambasa, Banen (Tunen)
Tiv, Bamum (Bamun), Mungaka (Mgaka, Bali), Beba, Anaguta, Bete (Mbete, Karang), Ekoi, Nyang, Vute (Wute), Jukun, Chamba, Bamileke, Kwotto, Kirri; Denya (Nyang)
Tiv, Bamum (Bamun), Mungaka (Mgaka, Bali), Beba, Anaguta, Bete (Mbete, Karang), Ekoi, Nyang, Vute (Wute), Jukun, Chamba, Bamileke, Kwotto, Kirri; Denya (Nyang)
Hausa
Kanuri
Northern Gur (Oti-Volta): Mamprussi, Dagomba, Dagari (Dagara; incl Lodaga), Bassari, Mosi, Nankanse, Konkomba, Moba; Ditammari, Nyende, Bulsa (pl Builsa, Bulo)
Dogon
Akan, Ashanti, Akwapim; Ga (Accra), Kra, Twi (Chwi, Chi)
Krache (Kraci); Ga; Adele
Bia: Anyi, Agni, Baule, Nsema
Fula (=Fulbe, Fulani, Pular)
Viet, Muong
Santali, Turi, Mahli
Northern Munda of Kharwar branch: Birhor, Ho, Mundari, Kol, Asur (including Agaria, Kol, Birjhia), Bhumij
Garo (Atchik), Kachari (Bodo, incl. Lalung), Dimasa, Tripuri, Riang (of Tripura), Khami, Riga, Mori
Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
Kannada, Lingayat, Halakki
Bengali, Maithili
Sindhi
Nepali; Tharu
Sinhalese; Vedda
Ireland
Portuguese
Catalan
Maltese
Sicily
Sardinia, Corsica
French (northern France)
Dutch, Flemish
Poles
Czech
Slovakians
Hungarians
Greeks (modern)
Bulgarians
Macedonians
Serbs, Monte Negro,
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Albanians
Ancient Greece
Lithuanians
Latvians
Livonians
Estonians
Finns
Karelians
Vepsians
Swedes
Danes
Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
Byelarusians
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)
Pashto
Persians
Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
Abkhaz
Ingush
Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi
Laks
Svans
Georgians
Armenians
Kalmyk
Anatolia Turks
Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
Kazakh
Uyghur
Turkmen
Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
Bashkirs
Mari (Cheremis)
Mordvins
Udmurt
Buryats: Western (cis Baikal)
Khakas
Shor
Siberian Tatars
Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu
Ndebele, Pedi, Thonga (incl Ronga), Hlengwe, Matabele (Tebele)
Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
Chechens
Luri, Bakhtiari
Wallons, Picardie
Galicians
Kordofan
Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
Ukrainians: Northern dialects
Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
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)
Lutsi (Ludza)
Faroe Islands
Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
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
Khamti, Ahom
Dogri
Hui of Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Qinghai (rare Hui texts from Southern and Eastern China are clustered with the Chinese ones)

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Motif: m152f Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 3 Weight: 1000
Motif: m154a1 Shared traditions: 10 All traditions: 10 Weight: 1000
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Motif: b33e1 Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 10 Weight: 900
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