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Motif

Name_eng:

A pound of flesh

Description:

A contract entitles the lender of a sum of money to cut a certain amount of flesh (or eye, head, limb, etc.) from the debtor’s body if the load is not repaid in time. The lender cannot cut out the flesh being unable to fulfill a condition that looks logical but is practically absurd

Name_rus:

Фунт плоти

Description_rus:

Человек занимает деньги с условием, что в случае невозврата к определенному сроку он должен будет отдать заимодавцу определенное количество собственной плоти (либо глаз, ногу и т.п.)/ Заимодавец не может вырезать плоть, ибо не в состоянии выполнить предъявленное ему формально логичное, но по сути абсурдное требование

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:

ATU ID:

890

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.3.2.1	Hausa
10.2.4.1	Koreans; Goguryeo
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
3.1.3.3	Berbers of Morocco and adjacent parts of Algeria
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
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
3.3.5.4	Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
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
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.2.1.4	Swedes
4.2.1.5	Icelanders
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Karata, Akhvakh
5.1.7.4	Laks
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.2.2.5	Kurds
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.3.2.4	Saudi Arabia
5.3.3.2	Mehri; Harsusi, Jibbali (Shahri, Shauri), Hobyot
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.11	Luri, Bakhtiari
5.4.2.6	Pashto
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.6.1.1	Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
5.6.2.1	Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
5.6.2.10	Sindhi