m160

Motif

Name_eng:

Unkind words are more painful than wound

Description:

A strong predator animal and a man become friends. The animal hears how the man or his wife complains about him (e.g. criticizes the bad smell of his mouth) and asks the man to strike him with an axe, knife and the like. Later he comes to demonstrate his healed wound and explains that the physical wound can be healed unlike the psychological one. Or the animal dies because of his wounded feelings as soon as he understands that the man betrayed him

Name_rus:

Обида словом и действием

Description_rus:

Сильный дикий зверь и человек подружились. Человек нарушает обещание, данное зверю, или презрительно о нем отзывается (позволяет это жене). Зверь просит причинить ему физическую боль и говорит, что обида, нанесенная словом, больнее (рана на теле зажила, душевная – нет). Либо зверь умирает от обиды, когда понимает, что человек его предал

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:

159B

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
3.1.2.2	Arabs of Libya
3.1.3.2	Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
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
3.2.1.2	Saho, Afar
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.1.3	Macedonians
3.5.2.1	Albanians
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.2.4	Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
5.1.6.1	Ingush
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Karata, Akhvakh
5.1.7.9	Tats
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.3.2.3	Arabs of Iraq
5.3.3.3	Soqotri
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.6.2.1	Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
5.6.2.22	Dogri