ATU Title | AT | Title | Origin |
ATU 1200 Sowing Salt | 1200 | Growing the Church | British |
1200 | People from Schwarzenborn Sow Salt | German | |
1200 | Pevensey Follies | British | |
1200 | Nicorbore and his Money | British | |
1200 | Wiltshire Follies | British | |
ATU 1201 Carrying the Horse | 1201 | People from Schwarzenborn Protect Their Seed | German |
ATU 1210 Cow is Taken to the Roof to Graze | 1210 | Biggest Fool | African-American |
1210 | Three Sillies 2 | British | |
1210 | Three More Bigger Fools | African-American | |
1210 | The Three Sillies | English | |
1210 | Three Sillies 1 | British | |
1210 | Parish Bull Eats the Grass from the Wall | German | |
ATU 1213 The Pent Cuckoo | 1213 | Borrowdale Cuckoo | British |
1213 | Yabberton Yawnies | British | |
1213 | Borrowdale Cuckoo | English | |
AT 1215A Trying to Please Two Wives (new classification Ashlimann) | 1215A | When One Man Has Two Wives | Arab |
ATU 1229* Shoveling Nuts with a Pitchfork | 1229* | Six Sillies | Belgian? |
ATU 1231 The Attack on the Hare (Crayfish) | 1231 | Wise Men of Gotham 3 | British |
ATU 1241A Pulling Out the Tree | 1241A | Austwick Carles | British |
ATU 1242A Relief for the Donkey | 1242A | Loading the Ass | Greek |
1242A | Pal Hall's Quiffs | British | |
1242A | Wise Men of Gotham 2 | British | |
ATU 1244 Trying to Stretch the Beam | 1244 | Stretching the Bench | German |
ATU 1245 Sunlight carried in a bag into the windowless house | 1245 | Coggeshall Jobs | British |
1245 | Austwick Carles | British | |
1245 | Silly Girl | African-American | |
1245 | Three More Bigger Fools | African-American | |
ATU 1248 Tree-Trunks Laid Crosswise on a Sledge | 1248 | Bolliton Jackdaws | British |
ATU 1250 The Human Chain | 1250 | People from Schwarzenborn Measure the Depth of the Well | German |
1250 | Moon in the Well | British | |
ATU 1250 Human Chain (subsumed AT 1250B) | 1250B | Panikar's Blunder | Indian |
ATU 1255 A hole to throw the earth in | 1255 | People from Schwarzenborn Dig a Well | German |
1255 | Essex Men's Well | British |
ATU 1260 The porridge in the ice hole | 1260 | Porridge in the Whirlpool | British |
ATU 1263 The Porridge Eaten in Different Rooms | 1263 | Lutoniunshka | Russian |
ATU 1270 The Drying of the Candle | 1270 | Yabberton Yawnies | British |
ATU 1271C* Cloak Given to a Stone | 1271C* | Old Roadman | British |
ATU 1276* Prayer for a Change of Wind | 1276* | Answer to Prayer I | British |
ATU 1278 Marking the place on the boat | 1278 | Marking the Boat 1 | British |
ATU 1278 Marking the place on the boat | 1278 | Marking the Boat 3 | British |
1278 | People from Schwarzenborn Hide a Bell | German | |
1278 | Marking the Boat 2 | British | |
1278* | Whittle to the Tree | British | |
ATU 1281 Getting Rid of the Unknown Animal | 1281 | The Owl | German |
ATU 1281A Getting Rid of the Man-Eating Calf | 1281A | Cow that Ate the Piper | Irish |
ATU 1282 House Burned Down to rid it of Insects | 1282 | Wise Men of Gotham 2 | British |
ATU 1284 Person Does Not Know Himself | 1284 | Where is the Jar? | Israeli |
1284 | Two Husbands | Israeli | |
1284 | Puzzled Carter | British | |
1284 | Eli | Greek | |
1284 | Wrong Man | British | |
1284 | Sean na Scuab | Irish | |
ATU 1286 Jumping into the Breeches | 1286 | The Three Sillies | English |
1286 | Lutoniunshka | Russian | |
1286 | Silly Girl | African-American | |
1286 | Three Sillies 3 | British | |
1286 | Three Sillies 1 | British | |
1286 | Three More Bigger Fools | African-American | |
ATU 1287 Numskull unable to count their own number | 1287 | Wise Men of Gotham: Of counting | British |
1287 | Counting Noses | United States | |
1287 | The Wise Men of Gotham | English | |
ATU 1288 Numskiulls Cannot Find Their Own Legs | 1288 | The Story of the Macandrew Family | Celtic |
1288 | Drovers Who Lost Their Feet | Mexican | |
ATU 1291 One Cheese Sent to Bring Back Another | 1291 | Freddy and Katy Lizzy | German |
1291 | The Wise Men of Gotham | English | |
1291 | Wise Men of Gotham: Of sending cheese | British | |
ATU 1291B Filling the Cracks with Butter | 1291B | Foolish John and the Errands | United States |
ATU 1291A Three-legged Pot Sent to Walk Home | 1291C | Ivanushko the Little Fool | Russian |
ATU 1294 Getting the Calf's Head out of the Pot | 1294 | Calf's Head get stuck in the Gate | British |
ATU 1297* Jumping Into the River After Their Comrade | 1297* | Austwick Carles | British |
ATU 1305 Miser and His Gold (formerly AT 1305A) | 1305A | Damer's Gold | Irish |
ATU 1310 Drowning the crayfish as punishment | 1310 | The Wise Men of Gotham | English |
1310 | Wise Men of Gotham: Of drowning eels | British | |
ATU 1310* Crab is Thought to be the Devil | 1310* | Lincolnshire Yellowbreasts | British |
1310* | Dabchick | British | |
1310* | Shapwick Monster | British | |
ATU 1310C Throwing the Bird fron a Cliff as Punishment | 1310C | Six Hungry Beasts | Finnish |
ATU 1314 Mistaking Harmless Objects for Dangerous Ones | 1315 | Po' Thing | African-American |
ATU 1316 Mistaking One Animal for Another | 1316 | Hunted Hare | British |
1316 | Difficulty fpr the Baby-Sitter | British | |
ATU 1318 Mistaking a Person (Animal, Object) for a Supernatural Being | 1318 | Old Marster and the Hant | African-American |
ATU 1319 Pumpkin Sold as a Donkey's Egg | 1319 | Pedro Urdimale, the Little Fox, and the Mare's Egg | Chilean |
1319 | Horse's Egg | British | |
1319 | Irishman and Punkin | African-American | |
1319 | Mare's Egg | British | |
1319 | The Story of the Macandrew Family | Celtic | |
ATU 1319* Other Mistaken Identities | 1319* | We killed him | British |
1319* | Austwick Carles and the Watch | British | |
1319* | Three Irish Tramps | British | |
ATU 1319J* Fool Eats a Beetle Thinking it a Blueberry With Wings | 1319J* | Has Plummocks Legs? | British |
ATU 1321 Fools frightened | 1321 | Seven Swabians | German |
1321 | Henry S. of Trenit Heron | British | |
ATU 1321C Fools are Frightened at the Humming of Bees | 1321C | Foolish German | Russian |
ATU 1322A* Grunting Ping | 1322A* | Jacob Stone and the Owl | British |
1322A* | Farmer Tickle and the Owl | British | |
1322A* | Henpecked Husband | British | |
1322A* | How Mr Lenine gave up Courting | British | |
1322A* | Take Two wi' t | British | |
ATU 1325A Fireplace Gives Too Much Heat | 1325A | The Story of the Macandrew Family | Celtic |
ATU 1326 Moving the church | 1326 | Coggeshall Jobs | British |
1326 | Moving the Church | German | |
ATU 1327 Emptying the Flour Sack | 1327 | The Wise Men of Gotham | English |
1327 | Wise Men of Gotham: Of buying sheep | British | |
ATU 1332 Which is the Greatest Fool? | 1332 | Greatest Fool of All | Indian |
ATU 1334 The Local Moon | 1334 | Cannings Vawk | British |
1334 | Slibburn-Mune | British | |
ATU 1335 The Swallowed Moon | 1335 | Eaten Moon | British |
1335 | Old Moon broken up into Stars | British | |
ATU 1335A Catching the Moon | 1335A | Darlaston Geese | British |
1335A | Coggeshall Jobs | British | |
1335A | Wise Men of Gotham: Rescuing the Moon | British | |
1335A | The Three Sillies | English | |
ATU 1336 Diving for Cheese | 1336 | The Buried Moon | English |
1336 | Moon in the Well | British | |
1336 | Moon in the Horsepond | British | |
ATU 1336A Not Recognizing Own Reflection | 1336A | Looking Glass | United States |
1336A | Farmer and his Wife and the Mirror | British | |
ATU 1339 Strange Foods | 1339 | First Banana | British |
1339 | Bahlul and the Sweetmeats | Arab | |
AT 1345* Stories Depending on Puns (no ATU) | 1345* | Captain Silk | British |
ATU 1347* The Statue's Father | 1347* | Big Christ and Little Christ | Mexican |
ATU 1349* Miscellaneous Numbskull Tales | 1349* | Ivanushko the Little Fool | Russian |
1349* | Lancashire Follies | British | |
1349* | Coat o' Clay | English | |
ATU 1349D* What is Intelligence? | 1349D* | Irishman Shows Pat a Yankee Trick | United States |
ATU 1350 The Soon-Consoled Widow | 1350 | Loving Wife | British |
1350 | Shadow of the the glen | Irish | |
ATU 1351 The silence wager | 1351 | He Who Speaks First | French |
1351 | Jamming Pan | English | |
1351 | Jamming Pan | British | |
ATU 1352A The Tale-Telling Parrot | 1352A | Parrot | Italian |
ATU 1353 The old woman as troublemaker | 1353 | Old Women Sows Discord | German |
ATU 1355 Man Hidden Under the Bed | 1355 | As Long as You Keep Your Legs Up | Indian |
ATU 1358A Hidden Lover Buys Freedom from Discoverer | 1358A | Lorenzo Dow and the Devil | British |
1358A | Hussary Stroke | Hungarian | |
ATU 1358C Trickster Discovers Adultery | 1358C | Tom Totherhouse | Norse |
ATU 1359 Husband Outwits Adultress and Lover | 1359 | Cut Their Knockers Off! | US Ozarks |
1359 | Lion the Color of Yellow Silk | Arab | |
ATU 1360C Old Hildebrand | 1360C | Song of the Thief | Polish |
1360C | Untrue Wife's Song | United States | |
1360C | Old Hildebrand | German | |
1360C | Little Dickey Milburn | British | |
ATU 1361 The Flood | 1361 | Three Lovers | United States |
ATU 1362 The Snow-child (Modus Leibinc) | 1362 | Snow Boy | US West Virginia |
1362 | Woman Whose Husband Went to Mecca | Arab | |
ATU 1365 The obstinate wife | 1365 | When Twice as Many is Half the Trouble | Arab |
ATU 1365A Wife Falls into a Stream | 1365A | How Madde Coomes sought his Wife | British |
1365A | Old Woman Against the Stream | Norwegian | |
1365A | Contrary Wife | English | |
1365A | Scissors | European | |
ATU 1365B Cutting with the Knife or the Scissors | 1365B | Knife or Scissors | British |
1365B | "Scissors!" | Egyptian | |
1365B | Scissors | European | |
1365B | Stubborn Wife | Russian | |
1365B | Wasn't she Spunky? | US New England | |
1365B | Knife or Scissors | English | |
ATU 1365C Wife Insults the Husband as Lousy-Head | 1365C | Quarrelsome Couple | African-American |
ATU 1365E Quarrelsome Couple | 1365J* | Bad Wife | Russian |
ATU 1375 Who can Rule His Wife? ????????????? | 1366A* | Grey Mare is the better Horse 1 | British |
1366A* | Grey Mare is the better Horse 2 | British | |
1366A* | Looking for a Man Boss | United States | |
ATU 1373 The Weighed Cat | 1373 | Djuha's Meat Disappears | Arab |
ATU 1375 Who Can Rule His Wife? | 1375 | Henpecked Husband | British |
1375 | Abu Nuwas and theCaliph's Queen | Arab | |
ATU 1376A* How a Husband Cures His Wife of Fairy Tales | 1376A* | Cuchulainn and the Smith's Wife | Irish |
1376A* | How a Husban Weened His Wife from Fairy Tales | Russian | |
ATU 1378B* Wife's Temporary Success | 1378B* | Mayoress | Russian |
ATU 1380 The faithless wife | 1380 | False Old Mawkin | British |
ATU 1381 The talkative wife and the discovered treasure | 1381 | Chatterbox | Greek |
1381 | Stroke of Luck | Hungarian | |
ATU 1381B The Sausage Rain | 1381B | Silly Jack and the Factor | British |
1381B | Bahlul and the Owl | Arab | |
ATU 1381E Old Man Sent to School | 1381E | Portmantle | British |
1381E | Old Roadman | British | |
1381E | John and Sally | British | |
ATU 1383 A Woman Does Not Know Herself | 1383 | Lawkamercyme | British |
1383 | Lawkamercyme | English | |
1383 | Sean na Scuab | Irish | |
1383 | Goosey Grizzel | Norse | |
1383 | Giske | Norwegian | |
1383 | Not a Pin to choose between them | Norse |
ATU 1384 The husband hunts for three persons as stupid as his wife | 1384 | Three More Bigger Fools | African-American |
1384 | Three Sillies 1 | British | |
1384 | Some Wives are that Way | Norway | |
1384 | Six Sillies | Belgian? | |
1384 | Not a Pin to choose between them | Norse | |
1384 | Th' Lad at went oot to look fer Fools | British | |
1384 | Clever People | German | |
1384 | Great Need | United States | |
1384 | Woman Called Rice Pudding | Arab | |
ATU 1385 A Foolish Wife's Security | 1385 | Ninety-nine Hens and a Rooster | Greek |
ATU 1385* Learning About Money | 1385* | Shining Fish | Italian |
ATU 1405 The Lazy Spinning Woman | 1405 | Lazy Woman | German |
1405 | Lazy Spinning Woman | German | |
ATU 1406 Three Clever Wives Wager | 1406 | Two Husbands | Israeli |
1406 | Stupid Men and Shrewish Wives | Norway | |
1406 | BelievingHusbands | Scottish | |
1406 | Which was the Foolishest? | Icelandic | |
1406 | Merry Wifes | Danish | |
1406 | Gown in the Bathhouse | Arab | |
ATU 1408 The man who does his wife's work | 1408 | The Husband who was to mind the House | Norse |
1408 | Old Man who lived in a Wood | British | |
1408 | Old Man in a Wood | British | |
1408 | Simple John and his twelve Misfortunes | British | |
ATU 1415 Lucky Hans | 1415 | Jack's Wonderful Bargains | British |
1415 | Barter | Russian | |
1415 | Mr Vinegar | British | |
1415 | The Hedley Kow | English | |
1415 | Gudbrand on the Hill-side | Norse | |
1415 | Hans in Luck | German | |
ATU 1416 The mouse in the silver jug | 1416 | Son of Adam | English |
1416 | Poor People Who Wanted to be Rich | German | |
1416 | Son of Adam | British | |
1416 | Clock | British | |
1416 | Bob Appleford's Pig or Mind Your Own Business | British | |
1416 | That's Not of Your Business | British | |
ATU 1417 The Cut-off Nose (Hair) | 1417 | Wise Men of Gotham 3 | British |
ATU 1419B Animal in the Chest | 1419B | Gown in the Bathhouse | Arab |
ATU 1419C One-Eyed Husband | 1419C | Returning Husband | British |
ATU 1419H Woman Warns Lover of Husband by Singing Song | 1419H | Untrue Wife's Song | British |
1419H | Exorcism | British | |
1419H | No Use to Rattle the Blind | US Ozarks | |
ATU 1420A The Broken (Removed) Article | 1420E | Abu Nuwas and the Fur Cloak | Arab |
ATU 1423 The Enchanted Pear Tree | 1423 | Blind Man and his Wife | British |
1423 | Apple Tree | United States | |
1423 | Bewitched Tree | British | |
ATU 1425 Putting the Devil into Hell | 1425 | Jack and his Master | British |
ATU 1425B* Why the Seventh Child has Red Hair | 1425B* | Father and Mother Both "Fast" | United States |
ATU 1430 Man and His Wife Build Air Castles | 1430 | Lean Lisa | German |
1430 | Daydreamer | Russian | |
1430 | The Broken Pot | Indian | |
1430 | Lazy Heinz | German | |
1430 | Buttermilk Jack | British | |
1430 | Don't Count Your Chickens | Arab | |
ATU 1430A Foolish Concerns for an Unborn Child | 1430A | Sievemaker and the Ass | Greek |
1430A | Lutoniunshka | Russian | |
ATU 1440 Substituted Animal | 1440 | Squire's Bride | Norwegian |
AT 1447* Bathing a Dirty Person (no ATU) | 1447* | Body Scrub | Egyptian |
ATU 1450 Clever Elsie | 1450 | Clever Elsie | German |
1450 | Three More Bigger Fools | African-American | |
1450 | Clever elsie | German | |
1450 | The Three Innocents | French | |
1450 | Six Sillies | Belgian? | |
ATU 1451 The Thrifty Girl | 1451 | The Hurds | German |
1451 | Half-Cup of Tea | English | |
ATU 1452 Thrifty Cutting the Cheese | 1452 | Best of Three | United States |
1452 | Choice of a Servant | British | |
1452 | Choosing a Bride | German | |
ATU 1453 Key in Flax Reveals Laziness | 1453 | Key in the Distaff | Norwegian |
ATU 1456 The blind fiancée | 1456 | Old Lady and Poor Eyesight | United States |
1456 | Nearsighted Old Lady | African-American | |
ATU 1457 Lisping Maiden | 1457 | Seven Dumb Daughters | Indian |
ATU 1458 The Girl Who Ate So Little | 1458 | Man Who Was in Love with Two Girls | Indian |
ATU 1459** Keeping up appearances | 1459** | How One went out to Woo | Norse |
ATU 1462 The unwilling suitor advised from the tree | 1462 | Three Year Sleeping Boy | Japanesse |
ATU 1476A Prayer to Christ Child's Mother | 1476A | Maid who wanted to Marry | British |
1476A | Nowt but a Tailor | British | |
1476A | The Girl from Brakel | German | |
ATU 1479* Old Maid on the Roof | 1479* | Young Man in the Morning | African-American |
ATU 1510 Matron of Ephesus | 1510 | Old John and Young John | British |
ATU 1525 The Master Thief | 1525 | Clever Jack | British |
1525 | Maltman and the Poller | British | |
1525 | Boy who outwitted the Robber | British | |
1525 | Master Thief | German | |
1525 | Ixte'que (The Thief) | Mexican | |
1525 | Canny Jack | British | |
1525 | Lothian Tom | British | |
1525 | Jack the Cunning Thief | Celtic | |
1525 | How Jack became a Master-Thief and married the squire's daughter | British | |
1525 | Quare Jack | United States | |
1525 | The Miser | Russian | |
1525 | Rabbit and Fox go fishing | African-American | |
1525 | Roclore | United States | |
1525 | When Ben Sikran Owed Money | Arab | |
ATU 1525A Tasks for a Thief | 1525A | Story of the Robbers | Armenian |
1525A | The Master Thief | Norwegian | |
1525A | The Master Thief | European | |
1525A | The Master Thief | Norse | |
ATU 1525D Theft by Distracting Attention | 1525D | Shifty Lad | Scottish |
1525D | Soldier's Riddle | Russian | |
ATU 1525G Thief in Disguise | 1525G | Quico and Caco | Chilean |
ATU 1525E Thieves Steal from One Another | 1525H | Robber's Cunning against another Robber | British |
1525H | Crack, Crook, and Hook | Italian | |
1525H | Cheater-cheated | Russian | |
1525H | Two Pickpockets | British | |
1525N | King of Cheats | Indian | |
ATU 1525Q Two Thieves Married to the Same Woman | 1525Q | Matching Wits | Armenian |
1525Q | Two Thieves with the Same Wife | Afghanistan | |
ATU 1525L* Theft Commited While Tale is Told | 1525Q* | Song of the Thief | Polish |
ATU 1525R Robber Brothers | 1525R | Quare Jack | United States |
ATU 1526A Supper Won by a Trick | 1526A | Tom Tram | British |
1526A | El Achichinque | Mexican | |
ATU 1528 Holding Down the Hat | 1528 | Pedro Urdimale Cheats Two Horsemen | Chilean |
ATU 1529 Thief as Donkey | 1529 | John Brodison and the Policeman | Irish |
1529 | Monks and the Donkey | US West Virginia | |
1529 | Passover Miracle | Israeli | |
1529 | Pedlar's Ass | British | |
1529 | Metamorphosis | British | |
ATU 1529A* Exchange of Horses | 1529A* | Rob Hall and the Gentleman | British |
ATU 1530 Holding up the Rock | 1530 | Tricky Yankee | United States |
1530 | Rabbit and the Coyote | Mexican | |
ATU 1532 Voice from the Grave | 1532 | Porcupine Daughter | Indian |
ATU 1532A Innocent Man Condemned to Death | 1532A | Secret Tokens Prove Ownership | Irish |
ATU 1533 The wise carving of the fowl | 1533 | Dividing the Goose | Russian |
1533 | Test of the Chicken | Armenian | |
1533 | Riddle | Greek | |
1533 | King's Son and the Poor Man's Daughter | US West Virginia | |
1533 | Just Deserts | Arab | |
ATU 1534 Series of Clever Unjust Decisions | 1534 | Shemiaka the Judge | Russian |
1534 | Judge and the Baker | Egyptian | |
1534 | Man with Many Court Cases | Israeli | |
1534 | Rich Brother and Poor Brother | Portuguese | |
1534 | Judgement of the Qadi | Arab | |
ATU 1535 The Rich and the Poor Farmer | 1535 | John Outwits Mr. Berkeley | African-American |
1535 | Huddon and Duddon and Donald O'Leary | Irish | |
1535 | Man with no Beard | Greek | |
1535 | Monkey-Son | Indian | |
1535 | The Little Peasant | German | |
1535 | Pedro Urdimale Cheats Two Horsemen | Chilean | |
1535 | Sheep for the Asking | British | |
1535 | Peasant Pewit | German | |
1535 | Ivanushko the Little Fool | Russian | |
1535 | Big Peter and Little Peter | Norse | |
1535 | Jack and the Giants | British | |
1535 | Si'Djeha's Miracles | Arab | |
ATU 1536 Disposing of a Corpse | 1536 | Dead Body | Russian |
ATU 1536A Woman in the Chest | 1536A | Whiteshirt | Hungarian |
1536A | Miserly Rich Man and the Unlucky Poor Man | Chilean | |
1536A | Woman in the Chest | German | |
ATU 1536B Three Hunchback Brothers Drowned | 1536B | Baker and Jack the Fool | British |
1536B | Pedro Urdimale and the Dead Priests | Chilean | |
ATU 1537 The corpse killed five times | 1537 | Monk of Leicester | British |
1537 | Clever Lord | Japanesse | |
ATU 1539 Cleverness and gullibility | 1539 | Story of Campriano | Italian |
1539 | Biter Bit | European | |
1539 | Story of a Very Bad Boy | French | |
1539 | Irishman's Hat | English | |
1539 | Pedro de Urdemalas and the Gringo | Mexican | |
1539 | The Wise Men of Gotham | English | |
1539 | Clever Old Man | Indian | |
1539 | Pedro Urdimale Cheats Two Horsemen | Chilean | |
1539 | Cunning Shoemaker | Italian | |
1539 | Pedro de Urdemalas and the Gringo | Mexican | |
1539 | Peasant Sells a Cow as a Goat | German | |
1539 | Schemer and the Flute | US West Virginia | |
1539 | Si'Djeha Cheats the Robbers | Arab | |
ATU 1540 The student from Paradise (Paris) | 1540 | Great Need | United States |
1540 | Jack Hannaford | English | |
1540 | Jack Hannaford | British | |
1540 | A Visitor from Paradise | European | |
1540 | Ninety-nine Hens and a Rooster | Greek | |
1540 | Woman Called Rice Pudding | Arab |
ATU 1541 For the long winter | 1541 | Thriftless Wife | British |
1541 | Hereafterthis | British | |
1541 | Hereafterthis | English | |
1541 | Good Fortune, and the miser and his wife | British | |
1541 | Silly Girl | African-American | |
1541 | Hoyik and Boyik | British | |
1541 | Great Need | United States | |
1541 | Simple Wife | Arab | |
ATU 1544 The man who got a night's lodging | 1544 | Ben Sikran Improves the Couscous | Arab |
ATU 1544A* Soldier's Riddle | 1544A* | Soldier's Riddle | Russian |
ATU 1545 The boy with many names | 1545 | Pedro de Urdemalas and the House with Strange Names | Mexican |
1545 | Quevedo Works as a Cook | Peruvian | |
1545 | King of Cheats | Indian | |
1545 | New Hired Man | US Ozarks | |
1545 | Pedro de Urdemalas and the Priest | Mexican | |
ATU 1548 Stone Soup | 1548 | Soup from a Stone | US New England |
1548 | Friar and the Whetstone | British | |
ATU 1551 The Wager that Sheep are Hogs | 1551 | Irishman Bets with a Bartender | United States |
1551 | Peasant Sells a Cow as a Goat | German | |
ATU 1555A Paying for Bread with Beer | 1555A | Paying for Beer with Peanuts | United States |
ATU 1555B Wine and Water Business | 1555B | Trading Water for Rum | US New England |
ATU 1557 Box on the Ear Returned | 1557 | Box About | British |
ATU 1558 Welcome to the Clothes | 1558 | Eat Your Fill, My Fine Clothes | Italian |
1558 | Story of a Brother and a Sister | Indian | |
ATU 1558 Welcome to the Clothes | 1558 | Djuha's Sleeve | Arab |
AT 1559B* The Uglier Foot (no ATU) | 1559B* | Uglier Foot | Irish |
ATU 1561 Three Meals in a Row | 1561 | Lad Who Was Never Hungry | English |
1561 | Useful Appetite | British | |
1561 | Mean Rich Man | United States | |
ATU 1562 "Think Thrice before you Speak." | 1562 | Father, I Think | English |
1562 | They took his Word! | British | |
1562 | King Edward VII and the Salad | British | |
1562 | Think Thrice before you Speak | United States | |
1562 | King Edward and the Salad | English |
ATU 1562A "The Barn is Burning" | 1562A | Master and Servant | British |
1562A | Master of all Masters | British | |
1562A | Easy Decree | British | |
1562A | Pedro de Urdemalas and the House with Strange Names | Mexican | |
1562A | Tom Ten per Cent | British | |
1562A | Clever Apprentice | British | |
1562A | Don Nippery Septo | British | |
1562A | Barn is Burning | African-American | |
1562A | Master of all Masters | English | |
ATU 1562B* Dog's Bread Stolen | 1562B* | Priest's Laborer | Russian |
ATU 1563 "Both?" | 1563 | It Didn't Cost Him Nothing | US Ozarks |
1563 | Lose Your Temper, and You Lose Your Bet | Italian | |
1563 | Pedro Animales Fools His Boss | Chilean | |
1563 | The New or the Old | Egyptian | |
1563 | New Hired Man | US Ozarks | |
ATU 1567 Stingy Household | 1567 | Take a Pinch of Salt with it | British |
ATU 1567F Hungry Shepherd | 1567F | New Mexican and the Californians | United States |
ATU 1567G Good Food Changes Song | 1567G | Rate for the Job | British |
1567G | Hungry Mowers | British | |
1567G | Farmer and his Man | British | |
ATU 1571* Servants Punish Their Master | 1571* | Tailor, King, and his Servants | British |
ATU 1572C* "Don't Contradict Me!" | 1572D* | Quarrelsome Demyan | Russian |
AT 1575 Servant Pretends to be an Angel (no ATU) | 1575 | Tailor and his Apprentices | British |
1575 | John Drew, the Shoemaker | British | |
ATU 1577* Blind Robber Paid Back | 1577* | Shopkeeper and the Four Blind Beggars | Israeli |
1577* | Porter Who Lost His Appetite | Israeli | |
ATU 1585 The Lawyer's Mad Client | 1585 | Pierre Patelin: of him that paid his dept with crying "BEA" | British |
ATU 1588** Cheater Caught by Seizing on His Own Words | 1588** | Years Are as Days | Israeli |
ATU 1589 The Lawyer's Dog Steals Meat | 1589 | Lawyer's Dog steal Meat | British |
ATU 1590 The Tresspasser's Defence | 1590 | Roclore | United States |
ATU 1591 The Three Joint Depositors | 1591 | George Buchanan as Advocate | British |
1591 | Three Joint Depositors | British | |
ATU 1592B Pot Has a Child and Dies | 1592B | Djuha Borrows a Pot | Arab |
ATU 1600 The fool as murderer | 1600 | Silly Jack and the Factor | British |
ATU 1610 Sharing the Reward | 1610 | Just Reward | Russian |
ATU 1611 Contest in Climbing the Mast | 1611 | Do that if You Can | British |
ATU 1612 The Contest in Swimming | 1612 | George Buchanan and the Drover | British |
ATU 1617 Unjust Banker is Deceived into Delivering Deposits | 1617 | Ashman's Money | Armenian |
ATU 1626 Dream Bread | 1626 | Man with the Pie | Greek |
1626 | Bakalawa Story | Israeli | |
1626 | Three Irish Tramps | British | |
1626 | Faith of the Three Fellows | British | |
1626 | Dream Bread | British | |
1626 | Two Psychiartrists | Mexican |
ATU 1628* So They Speak Latin | 1628* | Rich Man's Two Sons | British |
1628* | Rich Man's Two Sons | English | |
ATU 1640 The Brave Tailor (Seven with One Stroke) | 1640 | The Tailor | French |
1640 | Foma Berennikov | Russian | |
1640 | The Brave Little Tailor | German | |
1640 | Jack the Giant Killer 1 | British | |
1640 | Ivan the Simpleton | Russian | |
1640 | The Brave Little Tailor | Unattributed | |
1640 | Johnny Gloke | English | |
1640 | Widow's Son | Irish | |
1640 | Jack Strong, Slayer of Five Hundred | Italian | |
1640 | John Balento | Italian | |
1640 | Herr Lazarus and the Draken | Unattributed | |
1640 | Outwitting Giants | Armenian | |
1640 | John Glaick, the brave Tailor | British | |
1640 | A Dozen at a Blow | European | |
1640 | John and the Giants | US West Virginia | |
1640 | Jack the Giant Killer 2 | British | |
ATU 1641 Doctor Know-all | 1641 | Sham Wise Man | Mexican |
1641 | Goldhair Becomes Minister | Chinese | |
1641 | Old Coon | African-American | |
1641 | Clever Gypsy | British | |
1641 | Doctor Know-All | German | |
1641 | Peasant Astrologer | Italian | |
1641 | Almondseed and Almondella | Greek | |
1641 | Conjurer or the Turkey and the Ring | British | |
1641 | Clever Irishman | British | |
1641 | Robin's Escape | Irish | |
1641 | Dr. Know-All | German | |
1641 | Charcoal Burner | Norwegian | |
1641 | Fortuneteller | US West Virginia | |
1641 | Idle Ahmad | Arab | |
ATU 1642 The Good Bargain | 1642 | The Good Bargain | German |
1642 | Irismen and the Frogs | African-American | |
1642 | Bahlul and the Owl | Arab | |
ATU 1643 Money Inside the Statue | 1643 | Giufa and the Plaster Statue | Italian |
ATU 1645 Treasure at Home | 1645 | The Pedlar of Swaffham | English |
1645 | Dreams of Gold | Irish | |
ATU 1645A Dream of Treasure Bought | 1645A | Man Who Bought a Dream | Japanesse |
1645A | Man Who Bought a Dream | Japanese | |
ATU 834 Poor Borother's Treasure | 1645B* | Fortune and the Wood-Cutter | MidEast/Central Asian |
1645B* | Laziness Rewarded | Mexican | |
1645B* | God Will Provide | Arab | |
ATU 1650 The Three Lucky Brothers | 1650 | The Three Children of Fortune | German |
ATU 1651 Whittington's cat | 1651 | Cottager and His Cat | Icelandic |
1651 | History of Whittington | Unattributed | |
1651 | Three Pennies | Russian | |
1651 | Whittington and his Cat | English | |
ATU 1651A Fortune in Salt | 1651A | Salt | Russian |
ATU 1653 The Robbers under the Tree | 1653 | Mr. Vinegar | English |
1653 | Hereafterthis | British | |
1653 | Quare Jack | United States | |
1653 | Thriftless Wife | British | |
1653 | Tinker's Wife | British | |
1653 | Wedding Gift | US West Virginia | |
1653A | Silly Girl | African-American | |
1653A | A Visitor from Paradise | European | |
1653A | Hereafterthis | English | |
1653B | Fool and His Brother | Mexican | |
1653B | Fool's Luck | Armenian | |
1653B | Simpleton Brother,the Incense and the Magic Pipe | Greek | |
ATU 1654 The Robbers in the Death Chamber | 1654 | Stingy and Naggy | Egyptian |
1654 | Miser | Russian | |
1654 | Two Thieves | Russian | |
1654 | Partnership of Thief and Liar | Unattributed | |
1654 | Guifa and the Red Beret | Italian | |
ATU 1655 The profitable exchange | 1655 | It Started with a Thorn | Armenian |
1655 | Pedro Urdimale Makes Exchanges | Chilean | |
1655 | All Change | European | |
ATU 1657 How the Jews Were Lured Out of Heaven | 1656 | Cause Bob | British |
ATU1663 Deviding Five Eggs Equally between Two Men and One Woman | 1663 | Just Deserts | Arab |
ATU 1675 The ox (ass) as mayor | 1675 | Ox as Mayor | German |
1675 | Peter Bull | Danish | |
1675 | One-Eyed Cadi | Israeli | |
1675 | Ox as Mayor | Germany | |
ATU 1676B Frightened to Death | 1676B | Rider in the Brambles | Mexican |
1676B | Girl Who Died of Fright | United States | |
1676B | Stake in the Graveyard | Mexican | |
ATU 1678 The boy who had never seen a woman | 1678 | King Neptune's Diamonds | US West Virginia |
ATU 1681B Fool as Custodian of Home and Animals | 1681B | The Clever Servant | German |
1681B | Fool and His Brother | Mexican | |
ATU 1142 How the Lazy Horse Was Cured | 1682* | Quick Ass | Egyptian |
ATU 1687 The Forgotten Word | 1687 | Stupid's Cries | English |
1687 | Stupid's mistaken Cries | British | |
ATU 1689 "Thank God They Weren't Peaches" | 1689 | Thank God It Wasn't a Peso | Mexican |
1689 | Djuha and the Basket of Fig | Arab | |
ATU 1689A Two Presents for the King | 1689A | Test of the Chicken | Armenian |
ATU 1692 The Stupid Thief | 1692 | Letter to the Almighty | Israeli |
ATU 1693 The Literal Fool - the Burning of Lanka | 1693 | Letter to the Almighty | Israeli |
1693 | Foolish Weaver | Pushto |
ATU 1696 "What Should I Have Said?" | 1696 | Clever Hans | German |
1696 | Village Fool | United States | |
1696 | Stupid's mistaken Cries | British | |
1696 | Arrant Fool | Russian | |
1696 | Going Traveling | German | |
1696 | What Am I to Say? | Greek | |
1696 | Lazy Jack | English | |
1696 | Jack's Rewards and what he did with them | British | |
1696 | Giufa and the Wineskin | Italian | |
1696 | Stupid Drover | Mexican | |
1696 | Jock and his Mother | British | |
ATU 1697 "We Three; For Money" | 1697 | We Ourselves | Chilean |
1697 | Three Foreigners | British | |
1697 | Three Foreigners | English | |
1697 | We killed him | British | |
1697 | We Three Hielanmen | British | |
ATU 1698 Deaf Persons and Their Foolish Answers | 1698 | Hard of Hearing: a Love Story | US New England |
1698 | She Who Understood Best | Arab | |
ATU 1698B Travelers Ask the Way | 1698B | Deaf Man the the Pig Trough | English |
ATU 1698J The Misunderstood Greeting | 1698J | "Good Day, Fellow!" "Axe Handle!" | Norwegian |
ATU 1699 Misunderstanding Because of Ignorance of a Foreign Language | 1699 | I'll Take Two | Indian |
1699 | Buyer and the Seller | British | |
1699 | Two Farmers | United States | |
1699 | Englishman and Highlandman | British | |
1699 | Our Wife | Indian | |
1699 | Charity Will Save from Death | Israeli | |
1699 | Fool | United States | |
1699 | Rosary of Amozoc | Mexican | |
1699 | Value of an American Thank You | Indian | |
ATU 1700 "I Cannot Understand You" | 1700 | Old Gram Shaw | United States |
1700 | No Estiendo | United States | |
1700 | Colored Man and the Mexicans | African-American | |
ATU 1705 Talking Horse and Dog | 1705 | Farmer and His Ox | English |
1705 | Farmer and his Ox | British | |
1705 | Things That Talked | African-American | |
ATU 1730 Entrapped Suitors | 1730 | Painted Priests | US West Virginia |
1730 | Honet Wife | Greek | |
ATU 1735 Who Gives His Own Goods Shall Receive it Back Tenfold" | 1735 | God Gives a Hundred for One | Mexican |
ATU 1735 Wrong Song | 1735A | Man that stole the Parson't Sheep | English |
1735A | Wrong Song | German | |
1735A | Man that stole the Parson's Sheep | British | |
1735A | The Priest ' s Pig | French | |
1735A | Wee Boy and the Minister Grey | British | |
ATU 1736A Sword Turns to Wood | 1736A | Blessed Be God Day by Day | Israeli |
1736A | King Matyas and the Hussars | Hungarian |
ATU 1737 Clergyman in the Sack to Heaven | 1737 | Incorrigible Youth | British |
1737 | Roclore | United States | |
1737 | Canny Jack | British | |
ATU 1738 The Dream: All Clergymen in Hell | 1738 | Old Charley Creed | English |
1738 | All Priests Go To Hell | Mexican | |
1738 | Parson's Meeting | English | |
1738 | Old Charley Creed | British | |
1738 | Dream | German | |
1738 | Crowdy of Highworth | British | |
ATU 1738 The Dream: All Clergymen in Hell (subsumes AT 1738C*) | 1738C* | Three Premiers who went to Heaven | English |
1738C* | Two Chaps who went to Heaven | English | |
ATU 1739 Clergyman and the Calf | 1739 | Man That Had a Baby | US Ozarks |
1739 | Gown in the Bathhouse | Arab | |
ATU1741 Priest's Guest and the Eaten Chickens | 1741 | Clever Gretel | German |
1741 | Guest Who Ran Away | Arab | |
ATU 1750 Hen Learns to Speak | 1750 | Talking Turkeys | Arab |
ATU 1777A* "I Can't Hear You" | 1777A* | I Can't Hear a Thing | Mexican |
ATU 1785B Needle in the Pulpit | 1785B | Damned Boys | German |
ATU 1791 Sexton Carries the Clergyman | 1791 | Old Woman who cracked Nuts | British |
1791 | Two Tailors | British | |
1791 | Black and his Master | British | |
1791 | Churchyard | English | |
1791 | Three in One | British | |
1791 | Mother Elston's Nuts | British | |
1791 | Dividing Souls | African-American | |
1791 | Bag of Nuts | British | |
ATU 1804 Imagined Penance for Imagined Sin | 1804 | Confession | United States |
ATU 1824 Parody Sermons | 1824 | Tom's Conversion | British |
ATU 1827A Cards (Liquor Bottle) Fall from Sleeve of Clergyman | 1827A | Parson and the Cards | British |
ATU 1829 Living Person Acts as Image of Saint | 1829 | On Holy Week | Mexican |
ATU 1830 Producing the Weather | 1830 | Promising Candidate | British |
ATU 1831A* Inappropriate Acts in Church (formerly AT 1831) | 1831A | Angry Choir-Leader | British |
ATU 1832* Boy Answers the Clergyman | 1832* | Breaking the Commandments | British |
ATU 1832E* Good Manners | 1832E* | String of Trout | Canadian |
ATU 1832* Boy Answers the Clergyman | 1832J* | String of Trout | Canadian |
ATU 1883 Clergyman's Rhetorical Question Misunderstood | 1833 | Sermon on the Arrest of Jesus | Mexican |
1833 | Long-winded Preacher | British | |
1833 | Curate and the Fool | British | |
ATU 1833A What Does David Say? | 1833A | Parson and the Parrot | British |
1833A | What Did Paul Say? | African-American | |
1833A | Parson and the Parrot | English | |
1833A | Philip Spencer | British | |
ATU 1883E God is Dead | 1833E | Wanted a Pup | British |
ATU 1835D* Wager: Clergyman to Read Prayer without thinking of Anything | 1835D* | Plowman that said his Paternoster | British |
ATU 1838 Hog in Church | 1838 | Pig in the Church | German |
ATU 1839A Clergyman Calls Out Cards (formerly AT 1839) | 1839 | Wold Forred | British |
1839 | Cock-fighting Parson | British | |
AT 1840A Bull for a Saint (not ATU) | 1840A | Miracle of San Pedro Piedra Gorda | Mexican |
ATU 1840B Stolen Ham | 1840B | Miller's Eels | British |
1840B | Poetic Truth | British | |
ATU 1842 Dog's Legacy | 1842 | Wayfarer and His Ass | Israeli |
ATU 1843 Clergyman Visits the Dying | 1843 | An Honest McGregor | British |
ATU 1847* Biblical Repartee | 1847* | Thieves and the Apples | British |
ATU 1848 Pebble for Each Sin | 1848 | Two Chips who went to Heaven | English |
AT 1848* A Stone for Each Mass (no ATU) | 1848* | Pious Man | Irish |
ATU 1848A Clergyman's Calendar | 1848A | Priest who made Baskets | British |
1848A | Resurrexi | British | |
ATU 1862C Diagnosis by Observation | 1862C | Doctor's Apprentice | British |
ATU 1875 The Boy on the Bear's (Wolf's) Tail | 1875 | Tin Can on the Cow's Tail | British |
1875 | The Scalded Wolf | French | |
1875 | Scalded Wolf | French | |
ATU 1881 Man Carried Through the Air by Geese | 1881 | King of the Liars | British |
ATU 1881* Parrots Fly Away with a Tree | 1881* | Crows fly away with the Pear-Trees | British |
ATU 1882 The Man who Fell out of a Balloon | 1882 | Irishman Saves Himself First | United States |
ATU 1889A Shooting off the Leader's Tail | 1889A | Curt Goes Deer Hunting | United States |
ATU 1889B Hunter Turns Animal Inside Out | 1889B | Captain's Benson's Dog | US New England |
1889B | Don Bartolo | Mexican | |
ATU 1889L Split Dog | 1889L | Amassa Abbey's Dog | US New England |
1889L | Appy Boz'll | British | |
1889L | Dog and the Hares | English | |
1889L | Dog and the Hares | British | |
ATU 1890 The Lucky Shot | 1890 | Sir Gammer Vans | English |
ATU 1890F Shot Causes Series of Lucky/Unlucky Accidents | 1890E | Amassa Abbey's Circular Gun | US New England |
ATU 1891 Catching a Rabbit | 1891B* | Catching Hares in Winter | German |
1893A* | Two Hares 1 | British | |
1893A* | Two Hares 2 | British | |
ATU 1894 The man shoots a ramrod full of ducks | 1894 | Shooting Robins with a Ramrod | US New England |
1894 | Shooting Finches | British | |
ATU 1895 A man wading in water catching many fish in his boots | 1895 | Thomas Moore Catches Shad in His Trousers | US New England |
ATU 1896 Man Nails the Tail of the Wolf to the Tree | 1896 | Cold Snap of '83 in Thebes | United States |
ATU 1900 How a Man Came Out of a Tree Stump (Marsh) | 1900 | What Darkens the Hole? | African-American |
ATU 1911A Horse's New Backbone | 1911A | Horse's Last Drunk | Irish |
1911A | Wool and Withies | British | |
1911A | Basket-maker's Donkey | British | |
1911A | Amasa Abbey's Horse | US New England | |
ATU 1916 The Breathing Tree | 1916 | Major Brown's Coon Story | US New England |
ATU 1920 Contest in lying | 1920 | Tall Tale of the Merchant's Son | Israeli |
1920 | Four Fellows and their Three Dogs | British | |
1920 | Great Lie | Israeli | |
1920 | Rival Liars | Greek | |
1920 | Finest Liar in the World | Serbian | |
1920 | Man who Bounced | British | |
1920 | Mark Twain in the Fens | British | |
1920 | Man Who Bounced | English | |
1920 | Cole-wort | British | |
1920 | Seminole Medicine | US Ozarks | |
1920 | Prize for Lying | British | |
1920 | Long-Bow Story | Indian | |
1920 | Three Turnips | British | |
1920 | Village of Lies | Greek | |
ATU 1920A "The Sea Burns" | 1920A | Mark Twain in the Fens | English |
1920A | Chilean Swindlers | Chilean | |
1920A | Big Cabbage | African-American | |
ATU 1920B I Have No Time to Lie | 1920B | Too Busy to Lie | United States |
1920B | Art Church Tells a Lie | United States | |
ATU 1920D Liar Reduces the Size of His Lie | 1920D | Helping to Lie | German |
ATU 1920D* Climbing to Heaven | 1920D* | Village of Lies | Greek |
ATU 1920E Greatest Liar Gets His Supper Free | 1920E | Chilean Swindlers | Chilean |
ATU 1920E* Seeing (Hearing) Enormous Distance | 1920E* | Captain Benson Hears the Mouse on the Weather-Cock | US New England |
ATU 1920F* Skillful Hounds | 1920F* | Doctor Fell's Dog | British |
ATU 1920H Buying Fire by Storytelling | 1920H | If you don't like it, don't listen | Russian |
ATU 1927 The Cold May Night | 1927 | Cold May Night | Irish |
1927 | Cold May Night | Ireland | |
ATU 1930 Schlaraffenland | 1930 | The Tall Tale from Ditmar (Lying Tale) | German |
1930 | The Tale of Cockaigne (Schlaraffenland) | German | |
1930 | Chilean Swindlers | Chilean | |
1930 | Rabbits baste themselves | British | |
1930 | Sir Gammer Vans | British | |
1930 | Wee Yowe | British | |
1930 | Pynots in the Crabtree | British | |
1930 | Jack the Giant Killer 2 | British | |
1930 | One Sesame Seed | Egyptian | |
1930 | I Saddled my Sow | British | |
1930 | Thrawn Sang | British | |
1930 | Down Underground | British | |
1930 | Doun on yon Bank | British |
ATU 1940 The Extraordinary Names | 1940 | Household Servants | German |
ATU 1950 The Three Lazy Ones | 1950 | Three lazy ones | German |
1950 | Fimber Village Tales | British | |
1950 | Who is the Laziest? | Egyptian | |
1950 | Science of Laziness | Italian | |
1950 | Twelve Lazy Servants | German | |
1950 | Three lazy Ones | British | |
ATU 1951 "Is Wood Split?" | 1951 | Is it Shelled? | US New England |
ATU 1960A Great Ox | 1960A | Threshing Flail from Heaven | German |
ATU 1960B Great Fish | 1960B | Appy Boswell Stories | British |
1960B | Fish Story | US West Virginia | |
1960B | Pike with Long Teeth | Russian | |
ATU 1960D Great Vegetable | 1960D | Mark Twain in the Fens | English |
1960D | Big Connecticutt Pumpkins | US New England | |
1960D | Three Turnips | British | |
1960D | Great Turnips | British | |
1960D | Giant Parsnips | British | |
1960D | Village of Lies | Greek | |
1960D | The Turnip | German | |
1960D | Mark Twain in the Fens | British | |
ATU 1960G Great Tree | 1960G | Tall Tale of the Merchant's Son | Israeli |
1960G | Village of Lies | Greek | |
ATU 1960 Great Animal or Object | 1960Z | Finn and the Dragon | British |
1960Z | Great Wind | British | |
ATU 1962 My Father's Baptism (Wedding) | 1962 | When I was a Miller | Hungarian |
1962 | When I was a kid of Ten | Hungarian | |
ATU 1965 Disabled Comrades | 1965 | Five Men | British |
1965 | Lying Tale | British | |
1965 | Knoist and His Three Sons | German |