m173

Motif

Name_eng:

Pretending dead several times

Description:

An animal person pretends to be dead and lies down on a road in front of a traveler who carries something valuable. The traveler passes by but returns to pick up the animal when he sees another one, i.e. the same trickster who ran ahead. The trickster steals the possessions that the traveler abandoned for a time

Name_rus:

Несколько раз притворяется мертвым

Description_rus:

Зооморфный персонаж притворяется мертвым там, где должен пройти путник, несущий поклажу. Путник проходит мимо, но обманщик незаметно забегает вперед и повторяет свой трюк. Путник кладет поклажу на землю и возвращается подобрать первого умершего (ради шкуры или мяса), обманщик уносит поклажу

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.

4. All motifs of category 1 (cosmology) in sub-Saharan Africa and those motifs of category 2 (adventures) which are found in sub-Saharan Africa and widespread in the Indo-Pacific world with scarce or no cases in Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

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Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.3.4.2	Northern Gur (Oti-Volta): Mamprussi, Dagomba, Dagari (Dagara; incl Lodaga), Bassari, Mosi, Nankanse, Konkomba, Moba; Ditammari, Nyende, Bulsa (pl Builsa, Bulo)
1.3.4.3	Southern Gur (Oti-Volta): Grusi, Kabiye, Kasena, Lyela (Lyele), Wala, Dyan
1.3.5.1	Fula (=Fulbe, Fulani, Pular)
1.4.1.1	Nubians
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai