At this site:
Sastri. The Monkey with the Tom-Tom
Crooke/Rouse. The Monkey's Bargains
Cowell-Chalmers. The Business Begins with a Mouse
Jacobs. All Change
Beckwith. The Pea that Made a Fortune
Crane. The Sexton's Nose
Baskerville. How the Hare Traded
Z47. Series of trick exchanges. (Cf. K251.1, N421).
ATU 2034C. Lending and Repaying: progressively worse (better) bargains. This miscellaneous type consists of various chain tales in which a person (animal) trades something for another thing, which he trades again for something else. At the end, either he has made a profit, or he has lost everything.
ATU 2034F. The Clever Animal and the Fortunate Exchanges. A bird (fox, rabbit) asks someone to pull a thorn out of his foot. The thorn is used for a fire, so the bird demands the bread that was baked in the fire. The bread is exchanged for other things (sheep, bride) which are also exchanged.
ATU 1655. The Profitable Exchange. A poor man finds a bean (pea, grain millet) which is eaten by a rooster. The old woman who owns the rooster gives it to the man. When the rooster is eaten by a pig, he is given the pig. A steer (cow) kills the pig, and he takes the steer as compensation. Similarly, the man is given a horse as compensation for the steer. Eventually he demands a woman (princess) as compensation and puts her into a sack. His luck turns: strangers set her free and replace her with a big dog who jumps out and attacks the man.
Z41.5. Lending and repaying: progressively worse (or better) bargain. Type 2034C.
additional information:
Tonga: Torrend Bantu 169ff. [online at Internet Archive]
Ila: Smith and Dale II 392 ff. No. 17 [online at Hathi]
Pende: Frobenius Atlantis XI 265 No. 4 [not online?]
Bassari ibid. 97 ff. No. 12 [not online?]
Ashanti: Rattray 268 No. 73 [not online?]
Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2009;
additional information:
KASHMIR Jammu: Brown Tawi MS No. 76 [not online]
Ashliman: Trading Up (1) Type 170A = 2034F
Ashliman: Trading Up (2), Type 1655.
For more stories of "trading up," compare the English folktale of Dick Whittington and his Cat or the Japanese story of The Straw Millionaire. There is also a true story about Kyle MacDonald who traded up from "one red paperclip" in 2005 to a house of his own in 2006.
ASHLIMAN
Trading Up (1) Type 170A
Trading Up (2), Type 1655
With One Centavo Juan Marries a Princess (Philippines).
How the King Recruited His Army (African-American).
The Boy Who Was Called Thick-Head (Native American).
The Story of Hlakanyana (Kaffir -- South Africa).
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