m159

Motif

Name_eng:

The lion’s share

Description:

The strongest predator (usually a lion) suggests one of his companions to shares the booty. He is not satisfied by results and beats the companion. When another companion becomes to divide, he gives everything to the strongest one and explains that the injured one taught him the right way of sharing

Name_rus:

Львиная доля

Description_rus:

Сильнейший персонаж (обычно лев) предлагает разделить добычу (урожай). Тот, кто хитрее, отказывается от своей доли, но зато остается цел. Обычно волк (гиена, шакал) делит, отдавая льву большую часть, однако лев его бьет. Третий персонаж отдает льву все. Лев спрашивает, кто его научил так хорошо делить, и получает ответ: тот, кого лев покалечил

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.2.4.7	Luba (Baluba, Luba-Katanga, Shaba), (Ba)Holoholo, Tumbwe, Bena-Piana, Tabwa, Benabena-Mitumba, Zela, Bene-Marungu
1.3.2.1	Hausa
1.3.2.2	Biu-Mandara: Margi, Kilba, Bura, Kera, Karekare (Kerri-Kerri), Bachama, Zulgo, Giziga, Hdi, Kapsiki, Mandara (incl Mukulehe, Matakam), Mofu (Mofu-Gudur), Somrai (Sibine, Shibha)
1.3.5.1	Fula (=Fulbe, Fulani, Pular)
1.3.5.13	Soninke
1.4.1.1	Nubians
1.4.1.2	Arabs of Sudan
1.4.5.3	Zaghawa
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
3.1.3.4	Western Sahara and Mauritania Arabs; Berbers of Mauritania (Zénaga)
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs
3.1.3.7	Tunisia Arabs
3.2.1.4	Somali
3.2.2.1	Amhara; Zay, Harari; Silte, Gogot
3.2.2.2	Geez, Tigrai, Tigre
3.2.2.4	Oromo (Galla), Konso, Sidamo, Darasa, Bussa (Bassa), Kambata, Guji
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.2.1	Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)
3.3.2.3	Sardinia, Corsica
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
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
3.3.5.2	Frisians
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
3.5.2.1	Albanians
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
4.1.4.1	Early Russian written sources
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
5.1.3.2	Abaza (Abazins)
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.5.3	Kumyk, Terekemen
5.1.6.1	Ingush
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Karata, Akhvakh
5.1.7.4	Laks
5.1.7.9	Tats
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.2.2.5	Kurds
5.3.2.1	Aramaic (Syrians)
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.3.2.3	Arabs of Iraq
5.3.2.4	Saudi Arabia
5.3.3.1	Yemen
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.4.2.5	Baluch
5.4.2.6	Pashto
5.4.3.5	Wakhi, Ishkashimi (including Sanglich), Munji
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.2.1	Uyghur
5.6.2.21	Rohingya
5.6.2.9	Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)