m39a1

Motif

Name_eng:

Misunderstood instructions: a step behind

Description:

Fool follows instructions that were reasonable in every previous episode but become absurd in every next one

Name_rus:

Непонятые указания: на шаг позади

Description_rus:

Персонаж неверно понимает первое указание, обещает в следующий раз поступить как надо; буквально следует заученному правилу, которое не соответствует новой ситуации; так многократно

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:

112

ATU ID:

Stith Thompson ID:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.1.1.2	Khoekhoe (=Hottentot; incl Nama, Korana); Damara
1.2.1.3	Tswana (Chwana), Suto (Soto; incl Pedi, Mbire)
1.2.2.1	Shone (Shona, =Mashona, =Karanga), Makoni (Shoni dialect), Remba (=Hungwe, Wahungwe); Zezuru, Rozwi, Ndau (Vandau)
1.2.4.1	Congo (Koongo, Bacongo; incl Vili, Fioti, (Ma)Yombe, MuKunyi), Ndombo, Luango (Loango), Zombo (Sambo), Laadi (Laari), (Ba)Fioti, Woyo (Kiwoyo)
1.3.2.1	Hausa
1.4.1.1	Nubians
10.2.2.10	Guangdong, Guanxi and Yunnan Chinese
10.2.2.12	Hunan and Guixhou Chinese
10.2.2.5	Jiangsu and Zhejang Chinese
10.2.2.5	Jiangsu and Zhejang Chinese
10.2.2.6	Henan and Hubei Chinese
10.2.2.9	Shanxi and Hebei Chinese
10.3.2.1	Japanese folklore outside of Ryukyu
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.)
3.1.3.5	Morocco Arabs
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.1.4	Aragon
3.3.1.5	Basques
3.3.1.6	Galicians
3.3.2.2	Sicily
3.3.2.3	Sardinia, Corsica
3.3.2.4	Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
3.3.2.5	Maltese
3.3.2.6	Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.3.2.8	Italians: Northeast (Trentino – Alto Adige, Veneto, Venezia Giulia, Southern Tirol, Friuli, Istria)
3.3.3.3	Wallons, Picardie
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
3.3.4.3	Scotland
3.3.4.4	England
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
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
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.3.5.6	Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.2.3	Bosnia Muslims
3.5.2.4	Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
3.5.3.3	Transylvanian Saksons
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.3	Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.1.3.3	Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
4.1.3.4	Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
4.1.3.7	Russian Pomors ("seasiders"): Lower Pechora
4.1.3.8	Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.2.1.3	Danes
4.2.1.3	Danes
4.2.1.4	Swedes
4.2.1.5	Icelanders
4.2.1.6	Faroe Islands
4.2.2.1	Western Sami
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.2.4.4	Livonians
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.1.2	Udmurt
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
4.3.3.3	Astrakhan Tatars, Karagash Nogai
5.1.1.1	Kalmyk
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.1.5.1	Stavropol Turkmen (recent migrants from Mangyshlak Peninsular)
5.1.5.3	Kumyk, Terekemen
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Karata, Akhvakh
5.1.7.3	Dargin (Dargwa), incl. Müregin, Khürkilin, Kubachi
5.1.7.4	Laks
5.1.7.5	Lezgians, Archin, Kürin; Khinalug
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.1.1	Georgians
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
5.3.2.6	Arabs of Kuwait, Bahrein, Qatar, Emirates, Oman,
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.6.2.14	Bengali, Maithili
5.6.2.15	Assamese
5.6.2.2	Himachali-Pahari (Western Pahari)
5.6.2.8	Kashmiri
5.6.3.2	Malayali; Kannikaran
6.2.1.3	Eastern Tibetans (Kham; Sichuan, NW Yunnan)
6.2.3.6	Kuki, Chiru, Falam (Hallam), Chin (Meitei =Manipuri, Khami, =Kumi), Lakher, Mizo (Lushei), Anal, Pawi (Lai), Purum, Koireng, Milhiem, Kolhen, Mru
6.2.4.1	Kachin (Jingpho), Chak, Maru
6.2.4.1	Kachin (Jingpho), Chak, Maru
6.3.1.1	Burmese, Intha
6.3.1.2	Karen, Pa-O, Padaung, Kayah
6.3.1.7	Arakan, Chakma, Khyang
6.3.1.9	Khamti, Ahom
6.3.2.10	Viet, Muong