Berezkin Analytical Catalogue · Motif
M45B — Animals at the trough, ATU 179B*
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Summary of motif
OverviewThe old man carries a trough and lies down to rest, covered with it. The animals take the trough to the table and bring food. The old man gets up, the animals run away, the old man gets the food.
Berezkin category: Adventures: Tricks and episodes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part of group 11, Tricks and competitions won thanks to deception, absurd and obscene behavior.
M45 has 3 other sub-motifs
RelatedM45. When a zoomorphic character falls asleep or pretends to be dead (seriously ill), the animals he usually hunts gather to meet him. He catches or kills them, or they run away at the last minute.
M45a. A person is sleeping or pretending to be asleep or dead. Animals take him for a dead man - they mourn him, carry him to bury him, they are going to eat it, etc. A person beats the crowd and/or obtains benefits.
M45b. The old man carries a trough and lies down to rest, covered with it. The animals take the trough to the table and bring food. The old man gets up, the animals run away, the old man gets the food.
M45c. The character advises the other person to plant or sow boiled or roasted seeds or tubers, who follows the advice.
Top 10 motifs with similar dispersal patterns
Phylogeny| Motif | Similarity | Motif summary |
|---|---|---|
| I22G1 | 99.00% | In another world, the hero sees many strange things, including colliding stones (but they do not block his path). |
| B125A | 97.62% | The nightingale (or, less commonly, someone else) takes the copper's eyes and does not return them, leaving her blind. |
| M118 | 97.18% | The character obtains valuables or finds refuge inside an animal, tree, or building. Later, he himself, or more often someone else following his example, destroys the source of the valuables or makes access to it impossible or too dangerous. |
| B115A | 97.02% | Angry at the carpenters, the character (St. Peter) asks another (Christ) to make the knots in the wood or branches iron. The latter only makes them very hard. |
| H7C1 | 97.02% | The trickster first deceives Death (the devil), and then, also by deception, enters paradise. |
| I86A | 96.68% | Snow arises from bird down when a bird shakes itself in the sky or when a character shakes out down or fur clothing, plucks birds, etc. |
| I98A | 96.50% | The Pleiades (in Tajikistan â Giady) â hen, brooding hen with chicks, chicks, rarely â rooster. |
| J51A2 | 96.48% | A girl must penetrate an inaccessible place with the help of chicken bones. She loses one or there are not enough bones. By cutting off her finger and using it as she would use the bones, the girl achieves her goal. |
| K176A | 96.48% | The hero searches for his magical wife who has left him. It turns out that one of the winds is flying to her to perform a certain task. The hero follows him. |
| L42G2 | 96.34% | A person leaves traces behind by dropping seeds, pebbles, etc., or leaving drops of blood. These traces are unintentionally destroyed by birds, animals, wind, etc. |
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Map of motif dispersal
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Traditions
2 recordedThis motif has been recorded in 2 traditions: Latvians, Russian Federation
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