Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

Introduction
Bibliography
Ethnicities and habitats

M39a2e. Forgotten name. .29.32.33.

Forgetting his name, a fool remembers it when he accidentally hears a word.

Crimean Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars (Bakhchisaray) [Yuchkyundur ("beet head") got married; his wife took two cauldrons from her father - big and small; sent Yu to ask her mother-in-law how much salt to put; mother-in-law: two in the big one handfuls, one in a small one; Yu goes, repeats: two handfuls, one handful; the peasants are threshing wheat, beat Yu, telling them to say: God send abundance! Y. says this to the participants of the funeral procession; he was beaten: God rest your soul! wedding procession - you have to shout, Hooray! Yu frightened the bird, hunter: we must remain silent! Yu knocks on the door, is silent; his wife did not open it, he went to spend the night in the courtyard of the mosque; in the morning, the imam sees a red bare ass - it looks like beets! Yu remembered his name, came to his wife and named himself; asked for meat, invited the imam; the cat stole the meat; the wife put a pot of water on the fire, sent Yu to buy bread; she began to lubricate in front of the imam's eyes a rolling pin with meat: the husband will put it in the guest's ass; the imam ran away; the wife to her husband: the guest took the meat; Yu ran after the imam: stop, I'll only dip it once! (bread in broth); imam: shove your mother and your child; wife: if you are such a fool, I'll leave you]: Radlov 2021, No. 1;

Volga-Perm. Bashkirs ["In ancient times, when a magpie was a soldier, a sparrow was a chief, and a goat was a commander, a man named Shumbay lived in the village"; the wife sends Shumbay to her parents for salt; so as not to forget, S. loads a stone weighing half a pound on the horse; on the way he repeats: "Half a pound, half a pound"; after driving a little, he forgets and turns back; meets a girl who asks why he needs a stone; Sh. recalls the assignment, goes to his wife's parents; takes salt and, as his wife ordered, asks how much salt to put in the soup; mother-in-law replies: "A small amount is not enough, a lot in a large amount"; On the way home, S. repeats this phrase; meets two people sharing the harvest; says: "Small quantities are few, large quantities are many"; people reply that he should have said: "Let it be Blessed is the threshing floor!" , and they beat him; when he reached the cemetery, S. says to the people who are going to the funeral: "Blessed be the threshing floor!" ; they beat him, saying that it is necessary to say: "The kingdom of heaven to the dead!" ; S. goes on, meets people celebrating the wedding, and shouts: "The kingdom of heaven to the dead!" ; they beat him, say he should have fun, dance and sing songs; S. rides, dancing in the saddle and singing songs; frightened off the duck that the hunter was going to shoot at; he attacked S. it was sneaking in; S. goes on sneaking, inadvertently climbs into the field; he is caught and beaten by a watchman; S. comes home, his wife does not let him in, asks his name; S. does not remember, beats a neighbor; he calls him by name; S. comes home, his wife asks how much salt to put in the soup; S. does not remember, goes for the mullah; he comes, his wife tells him that S. is going to seal a bar to his face, lying on fire; the mullah runs away, S. chases him with a spoon, believing his wife's words that he took all the porridge]: Barag 1992, No. 36:76-78.

Turkestan. Kazakhs [Alda Akpar lived, a big confusion; his wife sends him to the bazaar for meat, tells me to buy a little bit; AA repeats "a little bit" on the go; bay people met, who were about to start threshing, became Beat AA, told me to say, "Grace is like hair on your head!" ; a man exhausted by scab pulls out his hair on his head with tweezers; beat AA, tells him to say, "Every single one of them is lost"; those who bury the Bai son beat AA, tell him to say, "Oh, my brother! Oh, poor brother!" ; the other bai married his son, tells him to beat AA, fold his hands and blow at them one by one, one hand like a zurna, the other like a kerney; the goose flew out and ran away, the hunter had been tracking him down for a long time, beat him AA, tells me to duck lower and sneak softly; AA did so, wandered into melons, where someone had been stealing melons in recent days, the owner beat AA, telling him to go with his head held high; so walking, AA did not notice the weaver, ran into the calico, ripped it off the machine and cut everything off; the weaver beat him, told him to go looking at the ground; AA got to the butcher, but forgot what his wife said, got up and stared at the ground; people thought he had lost money, one began to swear - scooped up a little bit of dirt with his galoshes! AA remembered, bought meat and went home; the time was over midnight, his wife had a young horseman; the wife asked who was there; AA: me; wife: tell me your name; AA forgot him, went to spend the night at the mosque; in the morning the mullah Azan reads: Alda Akpar! (Allah Akbar); AA: You are a prophetic person, you know my name! brought the mullah to his place, told his wife to cook meat; the wife sent AA to the mountains for juniper, began to oil a huge grindstone; says that her husband is used to shoving it into every guest's ass; the mullah rushed to run; AA came back, my wife says that the mullah took everything away, didn't even leave the shurpa; AA: Give me a cake, I'll catch up with him, at least dip the cake in the shurpa; caught up with the mullah: put it at least once! The mullah ran faster, deciding, and his wife and her lover ate all the meat]: Tilegenova 2011, No. 47:154-157.