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ATU Classification Type
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| ATU 1000 Contest Not to Become Angry |
AT 1000 Bargain not to become angry |
K172. Anger bargain. |
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F613.3. Strong man's labor contract: anger bargain. |
| ATU 1002 Destroying the Master's Property |
AT 1002 Giving Away the Master's Property |
K1400. Dupe's property destroyed. |
| ATU 1003 Plowing |
AT 1003 Coming Home When the Dog Does |
K1411. Plowing the field: horse and harness destroyed. |
| ATU 1004 Hogs in the mud; sheep in the air |
AT 1004 Hogs in the mud; sheep in the air |
K404.1. Tails in ground. |
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K404.3. Stolen sheep's tails severed and put in tree. |
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K404.2. Ox's tail in another's mouth |
| ATU 1005 A Bridge (Road) of Carcasses |
AT 1005 Building a bridge with Slain Cattle |
K1441. Building a bridge of cattle |
| ATU 1006 Casting eyes |
AT 1006 Casting eyes |
K1442. Casting eyes: animal's eyes. |
| ATU 1006* Kill the Sheep That is Looking at You |
AT 1006* Kill the Sheep That is Looking at You |
K1440. Dupe's animals destroyed or maimed. |
| ATU 1008 Lighting the Road |
AT 1008 Lighting the Way by Setting the Barn on Fire |
K1412. Lighting the road (or painting the house red). |
| ATU 1009 Guarding the Store-room Door |
AT 1009 Guarding the Door by Carrying it Away |
K1413. Guarding the door. |
| ATU 1010 Repairing the House |
AT 1010 Fixing Things Up |
K1415. Repairing the house |
| ATU 1011 Tearing up the Orchard (Vineyard) |
AT 1011 Cutting Down the Orchard |
K1416. Tearing up the orchard (vineyard). |
| ATU 1012 Cleaning the Child |
AT 1012 Cleaning the Master's Child |
K1461.1. Cleaning the child. |
| ATU 1013 Bathing (Warming) Grandmother |
AT 1013 Bathing the Grandmother in Boiling Water |
K1462. Washing the grandmother -- in boiling water. |
| ATU 1029 The woman as Cuckoo in the Tree |
AT 1029 The Bargain Ends When the Cuckoo Sings |
K1691. The woman as cuckoo on the tree shot down. |
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Partnership between Man and Ogre 1030 - 1059 |
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| ATU 1030 The Crop Division |
AT 1030 Man and Ogre Share the Harvest |
K171.1. Deceptive crop division: above the ground, below the ground. |
| ATU 1036 Hogs with Curly Tails |
AT 1036 Hogs with Curly Tails |
K171.4. Deceptive division of pigs: curly and straight tails. |
| ATU 1045 Pulling the Lake Together |
AT 1045 Pulling Down the Forest with a Rope |
K1744. Hero threatens to pull the lake together with a rope. |
| ATU 1049 The heavy axe |
AT 1049 The heavy Axe or the Giant Bucket |
K1741.1. Felling the whole forest. |
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K1741.3. Bringing the whole well. |
| ATU 1050 Felling trees |
AT 1050 Contest in Felling Trees |
K44. Deceptive contest in chopping. |
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K178. Deceptive bargain: felling the tree. |
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K1421. Clearing land: axe broken. |
| ATU 1051 Bending a Tree |
AT 1051 Springing with a Bent Tree |
K1112. Bending the tree. |
| ATU 1052 Carrying a Tree |
AT 1052 A Contest in Carrying a Tree |
K71. Deceptive contest in carrying a tree: riding. |
| ATU 1053 Shooting Wild Boars |
AT 1053 Shooting Wild Boars |
K1741.2. A thousand at one shot. |
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Contest between Man and Ogre 1060 - 1114 |
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| ATU 1060 Squeezing the (Supposed) Stone |
AT 1060 Squeezing Water from a Stone |
K62. Contest in squeezing water from a stone. |
| ATU 1061 Biting a Stone to Pieces |
AT 1061 Biting Stones |
K63. Contest in biting a stone. |
| ATU 1062 Throwing a Stone |
AT 1062 A Contest in Throwing Stones |
K18.3. Throwing contest: bird substituted for stone. |
| ATU 1063 Throwing a Club |
AT 1063 Contest in Throwing the Giant's Club |
K18.2. Throwing contest: golden club on the cloud. |
| ATU 1063A Throwing Contest |
AT 1063A Shouting a Warning |
K18.1. Throwing contest: trickster shouts. |
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K18.1.1. Throwing contest: trickster addresses Angel Gabriel. |
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K18.1.2. Throwing contest: trickster addresses Angel Gabriel or St. Peter, |
| ATU 1063A Throwing Contest |
AT 1063B Throwing a Club to Constantinople (now ATU 1063A) |
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| ATU 1070 Wrestling Contest |
AT 1070 Wrestling Contest with an Ogre |
K12.1. Wrestling match won by deception: where to throw the ogre |
| ATU 1071 Wrestling Contest (with Old Grandfather) |
AT 1071 Wrestling Contest with a Bear |
K12.2. Wrestling match won by deception: bear as "grandfather." |
| ATU 1072 Running Contest |
AT 1072 Race with the Trickster's Son |
K11.6. Race won by deception: rabbit as "little son" substitute. |
| ATU 1073 Climbing Contest |
AT 1073 Climbing Contest With a Squirrel |
K15.1. Climbing match won by deception: squirrel as "child" |
| ATU 1082 Carrying the Horse |
AT 1082 Carrying the Horse Between One's Legs |
K72. Deceptive contest in carrying a horse. |
| ATU 1085 Making a hole in a tree |
AT 1085 Splitting a Log Bare-Handed |
K61. Contest in pushing hole in tree: hole prepared beforehand. |
| ATU 1088 Eating/Drinking contest |
AT 1088 Contest in Eating |
K81. Deceptive eating contest. |
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K81.1. Deceptive eating contest: hole in bag. |
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K82.3. Deceptive contest in drinking whisky. |
| ATU 1088 Threshing Contest |
AT 1089 A Contest in Threshing |
K42.1. Threshing contest |
| ATU 1090 Mowing Contest |
AT 1090 Contest in Mowing |
K42.2. Mowing contest won by trickery. |
| ATU 1091 Bringing an Unknown Animal |
AT 1091 An Unheard-of Horse |
K216.2. Bringing the devil an unknown animal. |
| ATU 1091 Bringing an Unknown Animal |
AT 1092 An Unheard-of Bird (now ATU 1091) |
K31.1. Contest: shooting an unheard-of bird. |
| ATU 1096 Sewing Contest |
AT 1096 Contest in Sewing |
K47.1. Sewing contest won by deception: the long thread. |
| ATU 43 Bear Builds a House of Wood, the Fox of Ice |
AT 1097 House of Stone and House of Ice (now ATU 43) |
J741.1. Bear builds house of wood; fox of ice. |
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Man Kills (Injures) Ogre 1115 - 1144 |
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| ATU 1115 Attempted Murder with a Hatchet |
AT 1115 Attempting to Kill the Hero in His Bed |
K525.1. Substituted object left in bed while intended victim escapes. |
| ATU 1119 Ogre Kills His Mother (Wife) |
AT 1119 Ogres Kill Their Own Children |
K1611. Substituted caps cause ogre to kill his own children. |
| ATU 1120 Ogre's Wife Thrown into the Water |
AT 1120 Ogre Drowns His Own Wife |
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| ATU 1121 The Ogre's Wife Burned in Her Own Oven |
AT 1121 Burning the Witch in Her Own Oven |
G512.3.2.1. Ogre's wife (daughter) burned in his own oven. |
| ATU 1122 Ogre's wife killed through other tricks |
AT 1122 Killing the Ogre's Wife |
G519.1. Ogre's wife killed through other tricks |
| ATU 1130 Counting out Pay |
AT 1130 A Boot Full of Money |
K275. Counting out pay. |
| ATU 1133 Making Strong |
AT 1133 Castrating the Ogre to Make Him Strong |
K1012.1. Making the dupe strong -- by castration. |
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K241. The castration bargain: wife sent. |
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K1012.2. Making the dupe strong -- by scalding. |
| ATU 1135 Eye-remedy |
AT 1135 Blinding an Ogre with an Eye Ointment |
K1010. Deception through false doctoring. |
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K1011. Eye-remedy. |
| ATU 1137 Blinded Ogre (Polyphemus) |
AT 1137 Blinding an Ogre with a Stake |
F512.1.1. Person with one eye in center of forehead. |
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G100. Giant ogre. |
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K1010. Deception through false doctoring. |
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K1011. Eye-remedy. |
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F521.1. Man covered with hair like animal. |
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K603. Escape under ram's belly |
| ATU 1138 Gilding the Beard |
AT 1138 Gilding the Ogre's Beard |
K1013.1. Making the beard golden: "such a one". |
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Ogre Frightened by Man 1145 - 1154 |
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| ATU 1145 Afraid of Strange Noise |
AT 1145 Frightening the Ogre By Burning Twigs |
K2345. Ogre frightened at rustling. |
| ATU 1146 Millstones |
AT 1146 Ogre Takes a Millstone to be a Pearl |
K1718.2. Bluff: millstones said to be pearls of hero's mother. |
| ATU 1149 Bluff: Children Desire Tiger's Flesh |
AT 1149 Making the Ogre Fear Children |
K1715.4. Enemies frightened away by making them think they will be eaten. |
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K1715.2. Bluff: only one tiger; you promised ten |
| ATU 1149 Bluff: Children Desire a Tiger's Flesh |
AT 1149 Making the Ogre Fear Children |
K1715. Weak animal (man) makes large one (ogre) believe that he has eaten many of the large one's companions. |
| ATU 1151 Big Shoes |
AT 1151 Frightening the Ogre with Giant Shoes |
K1717. Big shoes in front of the barn. |
| ATU 1153 Wages: as much as he can carry |
AT 1153 All the Money the Trickster Can Carry |
K1732. Wages: as much as he can carry. |
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Man Outwits the Devil 1155 - 1169 |
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| ATU 1157 The Ogre and the Gun |
AT 1157 The Ogre Smokes a Gun for a Pipe |
K1057. Gun as tobacco pipe. |
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J2131.4.1. Looking through the gun barrel. |
| ATU 1159 The Ogre Caught in the Cleft |
AT 1159 Catching the Would-Be Musician in a Crack |
K1111.0.1. Dupe wishing to learn to play fiddle has finger caught in cleft of tree. |
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K1755. Ogre terrified by woman's legs |
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K1111.1. Ogre's (dwarf's) beard caught fast. |
| ATU 1161 The Bear Trainer and His Bear |
AT 1161 The Bear Trainer and His Cat |
K1728. The bear trainer and his bear. |
| ATU 1164 The Devil and the Evil Woman |
AT 1164 The Woman and the Ogre in the Pit |
T251.1.2.1. Husband chooses to go to hell rather than join shrewish wife in heaven |
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T251.1.2.2. Man in hell declares that life there is much better than on earth with his wife |
| ATU 1165 The troll and the Baptism |
AT 1165 The troll and the christening |
K1736. Troll bluffed away from christening. |
| ATU 1169 Changing Heads |
AT 1169 The Transposed Heads |
A1371.1. Bad women because of head exchanged with devil. |
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E34. Resuscitation with misplaced head. |
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Souls Saved from the Devil 1170 - 1199 |
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| ATU 1170 The Unsalable Woman |
AT 1170 The Devil, the Pedlar, and the Old Woman |
K216.1. The evil woman in the glass case as the last commodity. |
| ATU 1174 Making a Rope of Sand |
AT 1174 Master's Magic Book |
H1021.1. Task: making a rope of sand. |
| ATU 1175 Straightening a Curly Hair |
AT 1175 Straightening a Curly Hair |
H1023.4. Task: straightening a curly hair. |
| ATU 1179 The Devil on the Ship |
AT 1179 The Devil Mans a Pump |
H1023.5. Task: pumping out a leaky ship. |
| ATU 1180 Catching Water in a Sieve |
AT 1180 Water in a Sieve |
H1023.2. Task: carrying water in a sieve. |
| ATU 1185 The First Crop |
AT 1185 The First Crop |
K221. Payment to be made at harvest of first crop. |
| ATU 1187 Meleager |
AT 1187 To Live as Long as a Candle Lasts |
E765.1.1. Life bound up with candle. |
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K551.9. Let me live as long as this candle lasts. |
| ATU 1191 Sacrifice on the Bridge |
AT 1191 Devil Build a Bridge |
S241.1. Unwitting bargain with devil evaded by driving dog over bridge first. |
| ATU 1199 Prayer Without End |
AT 1199 Death Waits for the Man to Pray |
K551.1. Respite from death granted until prayer is finished |
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K555.2. Respite from death gained by long-drawn-out song. |
