m158 | MapsOfMyths

Name_eng:

Tops or buts

Description:

Two animals (an animal and a person, an ogre and a person, etc.) agree to divide a crop in such a way that one would take what is above the ground and another what is beneath ground. One of them (several times makes a wrong choice (takes turnip tops and wheat roots)

Name_rus:

Вершки и корешки

Description_rus:

Человек и животное (черт) либо двое животных решают обработать поле и поделить урожай так, что один получит надземную, а другой – подземную часть. Один из персонажей (все время) остается в проигрыше (выбирает ботву репы и корни пшеницы)

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:

1030

Stith Thompson ID:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.3.5.11	Mandingo (Manden, incl San, Samo), Kagoro, Bambara (Bamana), Malinke, Kassonke, Diula
1.3.5.15	Bobo (Bobo-Fin)
1.4.1.2	Arabs of Sudan
10.2.2.1	Chinese folklore: Anhui, Jiangxi and data without precise provinience (incl Hakka, Min Dong)
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.)
3.1.3.3	Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
3.1.3.5	Morocco Arabs
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs
3.1.3.7	Tunisia Arabs
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.1.4	Aragon
3.3.1.6	Galicians
3.3.2.5	Maltese
3.3.2.6	Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.3.2.8	Italians: Northeast (Trentino – Alto Adige, Veneto, Venezia Giulia, Southern Tirol, Friuli, Istria)
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
3.3.4.1	Ireland
3.3.4.2	Wales
3.3.4.3	Scotland
3.3.4.4	England
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
3.3.5.4	Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.3.5.6	Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.1.3	Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
4.1.1.4	Czech
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)
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
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)
4.1.3.7	Russian Pomors ("seasiders"): Lower Pechora
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.2.1.3	Danes
4.2.1.4	Swedes
4.2.1.6	Faroe Islands
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.3.3	Vepsians
4.2.4.1	Votians
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.2.4.4	Livonians
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.2.2.4	Talysh
5.3.2.1	Aramaic (Syrians)
5.3.2.3	Arabs of Iraq
5.3.2.4	Saudi Arabia
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.4.2.4	Highland Tajik
5.4.2.8	Uzbek
5.6.2.1	Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
5.6.2.11	Gujarati
5.6.2.14	Bengali, Maithili
5.6.2.15	Assamese
5.6.2.20	Maldives
5.6.2.8	Kashmiri
5.6.2.9	Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
5.6.3.3	Kannada, Lingayat, Halakki
5.6.3.4	Tamil, Muthuvan, Marvar
6.1.1.1	Santali, Turi, Mahli
6.1.1.8	Sora (Savara, Saora), Parenga
6.1.2.2	Kond (Khond, Kondh; language is Kui, incl Kuttia, Konda-Dora), Koya; Pengo
6.1.2.3	Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)
6.3.1.8	Zhuang, Dong, Dai
6.3.2.10	Viet, Muong