m154a


Motif

Name_eng: 
A donkey induces overworked ox to feign sickness
Description: 

One of domestic animals (usually the donkey) induces another who is overworked to feign sickness. When the next day he must do the work of the “sick” one, he tells that the master has decided to slaughter the one who is unable to work and persuades him to stop being ill

Name_rus: 
Вол, осел и работа
Description_rus: 
Одно из домашних животных (обычно осел) подговаривает другого притвориться больным. После этого советчику приходится работать за двоих. Тогда он говорит мнимому больному, будто хозяин собирается его зарезать и тот сам спешит на работу
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: 
43
ATU ID: 
207A

Linked traditions:
Areal IDTradition
1.2.5.12Swahili, Midjikenda (incl Giryama), Nyika, Duruma; Ngindo, Kiluguru and other Islamic groups of the Eastern Coast of Africa
1.4.1.1Nubians
1.4.1.2Arabs of Sudan
1.4.1.3Kordofan
3.1.2.1Arabs of Egypt
3.1.3.2Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
3.1.3.5Morocco Arabs
3.2.1.4Somali
3.2.2.1Amhara; Zay, Harari; Silte, Gogot
3.3.1.1Spain
3.3.1.6Galicians
3.3.2.2Sicily
3.3.2.4Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
3.3.2.5Maltese
3.3.2.7Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.3.3.3Wallons, Picardie
3.3.3.5Occitanie (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
3.3.4.1Ireland
3.3.5.3Germans: 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
3.5.1.1Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2Bulgarians
3.5.1.3Macedonians
3.5.2.1Albanians
3.5.2.5Slovenians
3.5.3.1Hungarians
4.1.2.2Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.2.5.2Lithuanians
4.3.2.2Mordvins
5.1.4.2Ossetians
5.1.7.4Laks
5.2.2.5Kurds
5.3.2.1Aramaic (Syrians)
5.3.2.2Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.3.2.5Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
5.4.2.1Persians
5.4.2.10Turkmen
5.4.2.6Pashto
5.4.2.6Pashto
5.5.1.1Kazakh
5.5.1.2Kara Kalpak
5.5.2.6Hui of Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Qinghai (rare Hui texts from Southern and Eastern China are clustered with the Chinese ones)
5.6.2.9Punjabi, Seraiki (Multani)
6.2.3.5Garo (Atchik), Kachari (Bodo, incl. Lalung), Dimasa, Tripuri, Riang (of Tripura), Khami, Riga, Mori

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Motif: k56a5c Shared traditions: 6 All traditions: 8 Weight: 750
Motif: k127b Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 7 Weight: 714
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Motif: m39a5a2 Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 6 Weight: 667
Motif: k73b7 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: l108g Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: i140 Shared traditions: 2 All traditions: 3 Weight: 667
Motif: k32g3 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 11 Weight: 636
Motif: b113 Shared traditions: 5 All traditions: 8 Weight: 625
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Motif: k56a8c Shared traditions: 3 All traditions: 5 Weight: 600
Motif: b33f1 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 12 Weight: 583
Motif: k33f1 Shared traditions: 7 All traditions: 12 Weight: 583
Motif: i13e Shared traditions: 4 All traditions: 7 Weight: 571