m178


Motif

Motif code: 
m178
Name_eng: 
The lying goat
Description: 

A man sends others one after the other to pasture the goat. Back home, the goat always complains it did not get anything to eat. The man angrily sends away or kills his shepherds (who usually are his family members). When he himself pastures the goat he realizes that it lies. He is going to kill the goat, usually skins it, but it escapes

Name_rus: 
Лживая коза
Description_rus: 
Хозяин последовательно посылает других пасти козу (стадо коз). Коза вдоволь ест траву, но каждый раз отвечает хозяину, что ее держали впроголодь. Тот возмущен, убивает или прогоняет пастухов. Убедившись в лживости козы, собирается ее убить, нередко начинает сдирать с живой козы шкуру, коза убегает
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: 
49
ATU ID: 
*212
Stith Thompson ID: 

Linked traditions:
Arabs of Egypt
Algeria Arabs
Arabs of Sudan
Spain
Catalan
Bretagne
French (northern France)
Dutch, Flemish
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
Czech
Slovakians
Hungarians
Greeks (modern)
Bulgarians
Macedonians
Serbs, Monte Negro,
Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
Slovenians
Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
Lithuanians
Latvians
Estonians
Votians
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)
Persians
Ossetians
Nogai
Gagauz
Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
Mordvins
Udmurt
Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
Shor
Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
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)
Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
Terek Cossacks
Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
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

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Motif: a32m Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 7 Weight: 1000
Motif: b33d1 Shared traditions: 12 All traditions: 13 Weight: 923
Motif: k76d Shared traditions: 12 All traditions: 13 Weight: 923
Motif: h54a Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 8 Weight: 875
Motif: l42i1 Shared traditions: 13 All traditions: 15 Weight: 867
Motif: m29z2 Shared traditions: 13 All traditions: 15 Weight: 867
Motif: h6c2 Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
Motif: k64c Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 7 Weight: 857
Motif: j51a2 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: f9g1 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 6 Weight: 833
Motif: k56a2b Shared traditions: 9 All traditions: 11 Weight: 818
Motif: f5a Shared traditions: 18 All traditions: 22 Weight: 818
Motif: a32d1 Shared traditions: 22 All traditions: 27 Weight: 815
Motif: b33e1 Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 10 Weight: 800
Motif: b87b Shared traditions: 8 All traditions: 10 Weight: 800