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Motif

Name_eng:

Cornel-tree fruits

Description:

Person (a devil or a bear) thinks that because the Cornus mas tree (European cornel, male cornel) blossoms before all other fruit trees do, it also brings its fruits early. The cornel fruits become ripe very late, so the person is disappointed and gets no fruits

Name_rus:

Кизил

Description_rus:

Персонаж думает, что поскольку кизил зацветает раньше других плодовых деревьев, то и его плоды созреют раньше других. Персонаж ошибается, остается без плодов

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

07 Etiology of plants and animals and of their peculiar features, particular animals as protagonists of cosmological stories, metamorphoses, weather and calendar

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:

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Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.2.4	Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.1.5.3	Kumyk, Terekemen
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)