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ATU 2022 The Death of the Little Hen


At this site:
Jacobs. Titty Mouse And Tatty Mouse
Steel. Poor Hen-Sparrow
Asbjørnsen. The Cock Who Fell into the Brewing Vat
Grimm. Louse and Flea

Compare also ATU 2023. Little Ant Marries which has both courtship and mourning.

ATU 2022: The Death of the Little Hen. Chain tale, game, song, or rhyme in which a small animal (chicken, flea, louse, other insect, small child,etc.) dies (fall into a cooking pot and is scalded, is burned, is drowned). Various people (girl, woman, father, etc.), animals, and objects (door, window, wagon, broom, tree, water, well, etc.) lament the death, which they announce in their characteristic manners. For example, the flea weeps, the tree loses its leaves, the door squeaks, the broom sweeps, the table "entables," etc.).

Z32.1.1 The death of the cock. (Der Tod des Huhnchens). The cock chokes and the hen seeks aid of objects and persons (stream, tree, pig, miller, baker, etc.).
Z32.2 The death of the little hen. She is characteristically mourned by objects and animals; e.g. flea, door, broom cart, ashes, tree, girl.
Z32.2.1 The death of the little hen described with unusual words. Each act of mourning describing by a neologism: the table untables itself.

additional information:

Wikipedia: The Louse and the Flea
Ashliman: Mourning the Death of a Spouse 2022

Missouri French: Carriere [online]

Parsons JAFL XXXIII 37 (1920) 37-39 no. 2 [online]

Tegethoff Franzosische Marchen (1923) II 78 No. 18 [German online]

Rolland Rimes et jeux d'enfance (1883) 119ff. [French online at Hathi]

Little Sausage and Little Mouse: Ranke, Folktales of Germany

ATU 2023. Little Ant Marries


At this site:
Crane. The Ant and the Mouse
Paredes. The Ant and the Mouse
Crane. The Cat and the Mouse
D'Penha. The Louse and the Rat

Compare also ATU 2022 The Death of the Little Hen, which has mourning but no courtship.

Z32.3 [ATU 2023] Little ant finds a penny, buys new clothes with it, and sits in her doorway. Various animals pass by and propose marriage. She asks what they do at night. Each one replies with its characteristic sound, and none pleases her but the quiet little mouse, whom she marries. She leaves him to tend the stew, and he falls in and drowns. She weeps and, on learning the reason, the bird cuts off its beak, dove cuts off its tail, etc.

ATU 2023. Little Ant Marries. An ant (beetle, cockroach, grasshopper, snail, cat, etc.) finds some money, buys new clothes, and sits in her doorway. Many animals come by and ask her to marry them, in their characteristic voices. The ant chooses the mouse, because he is quiet. When the mouse stirs the stew (wedding soup), he falls in the pot and drowns. When the ant discovers this, she weeps. The bird tears his own beak off, the seagull tears his own tail off, etc.

additional information:

Spanish: Boggs 2023: COAR p. 3 [online at Hathi; Spanish only] = SCL p. 86 = CST p. 137;  LRAC 180, 181; ECPE 271-2-3-4 (in some, mouse has to get up during the night and cat eats him)

little cockroach martina - dorson / folktales - plus sister cat

ATU 2025. The Fleeing Pancake


At this site:
Jacobs. Johnny-Cake
Kennedy. The Wonderful Cake.
Jacobs. Wee Bannock
(more to come!)

Z33.1 [ATU 2025] The fleeing pancake. A woman makes a pancake, which flees. Various animals try in vain to stop it. Finally the fox eats it up.

ATU 2025. A pancake (pudding, cake, cookie, cabbage strudel, round bread) jumps out of the pan (plate) and runs away from the cook (mother) who wants to eat it. The pancake runs outside and meets a series of animals (hen, rooster, duck, goose, fox, pig) or people who also want to eat it. The pancake runs away from all of them, bargging about all the others it has already escaped from. The fox (pig) induces the pancake to come close by pretending to be deaf, and gobbles it up.
The pig drops part of the pancake, so now all pigs root around in the mud looking for it.

additional information:

Wikipedia: The Gingerbread Man

Baughman 2025.
ABERDEEN: Gregor and Moir FL Journal 2:71 1894. [online at Hathi]
BORDER: Petrie Borders 140, 1950
NEW HAMPSHIRE: Kittredge JAF 3:291-92, 1890 [online at Hathi]
MASSACHUSETTS: Whiting JAF 2:217-218, 1889 [online at Hathi]
TEXAS Dobie PTFS 6:30-33, 1927

Darnhardt Zeitschrift des Vereins fur Volkskunde XVII (1907) 133-41 No. 2, Vom fliehenden Pfannkuchen and, in better form, Natursagen III 272-284

Zuidema Zeitschrift des Vereins fur Volkskunde XVIII (1908) 195

Dan: MS DFS, Kristensen Danske Dyrefable 58f. Nos. 113-118

Fb "pandekage" II 782b

Norwegian: Christiansen Norske Eventyr 149

Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2025

Russian Andrejev No. 295, 296 - The Bun - Afanasyev
Gingerbread Boy - Clarkson and Cross - World
Wee Bannock - Jacobs

ASHLIMAN: The Runaway Pancake 2025
The Pancake (Norway).
The Runaway Pancake (Germany).
The Thick, Fat Pancake (Germany).
Dathera Dad (England).
The Wonderful Cake (Ireland).
The Wee Bunnock (Scotland [Ayrshire]).
The Wee Bannock (Scotland [Dumfriesshire]).
The Wee Bannock (Scotland [Selkirkshire]).
The Fox and the Little Bonnach (Scotland).
The Gingerbread Boy (USA).
The Johnny-Cake (USA).
The Little Cakeen (USA).


ATU 2028. The Devouring Animal that was Cut Open


At this site:
Asbjornsen. The Greedy Cat
Crooke/Rouse. The Cat and the Parrot
Bryant. The Cat and the Parrot
Gordon. The Louse and the Crow
Stokes. The Jackal and the Cat

ATU 2028: A cat (wolf, troll, mouse, giant, bear, chick, pumpkin, woman, louse) with a huge appetite drinks a great quantity of milk, then eats a lot of food and devours the family with whom he lives. He goes out and people (animals) whom he meets on the road ask him why he is so fat (where he is going, why he is out so early). The cat lists everything he has eaten and announces that he will eat this person too. He devours everything he meets, e.g. certain animals, a cowherd, a flock of birds, a driver and his team of horses, etc. At the end, the cat bursts or meets an ox (someone else) he wants to eat which splits the cat's belly open with its horn (a knife). Everything that the cat had eaten comes out alive. In some variants, a childless couple use clay to make a child who eats everything he meets.

Z33.4 The fat troll (wolf). A troll eats the watcher's five horses and finally the watcher himself. The master goes to investigate: The troll: "I ate the five horses, I ate the watcher, and I will eat you." Does so. Likewise the wife, servant, daughter, son, and dog. The cat scratches the troll open and rescues all.

Z33.2 The fat cat. While the mistress is away, the cat eats the porridge, the bowl, and the ladle. When the mistress returns she says, "How fat you are!" The cat: "I ate the porridge, the bowl, and the ladle, and I will eat you." The cat meets other animals and eats them after the same conversation. Finally eats too many.

Z33.3 Woman meets a pig. "Good morning." "Why are you up so early?" "I am not up so early. I have drunk seven vats of milk and eaten seven plates of porridge and I shall eat you." She ate the pig.

Z33.4.1. Louse and crow make covenant of friendship: louse eats crow despite crow saying, "If I strike you once with my beak, you will disappear; how then can you talk of eating me?" Likewise louse eats loaf of bread, she-goat, cow, buffalo, five sepoys, wedding procession, with one lakh of people, elephant, tank of water. A sepoy cuts louse in two with his sword and rescues all.

additional information:

Baughman 2028.
VIRGINIA: Chase Grandfather 75-81, 1958 [doc]
KENTUCKY: Roberts South 155-157, 265, 1955 (two variants)

Danish: Kristensen Dyrefabler 68ff. Nos. 131-144 [online at Hathi; Danish only]
Danish: Kristensen Dyrefabler 59ff. Nos. 119-130 [at Hathi; Danish only]

Cat and the Parrot - India - Clarkson and Cross / World: see addition stories in notes on pp. 223 and following


ATU 2030. The Old Woman and her Pig


at this site:
Jacobs. The Old Woman and Her Pig
Jacobs. Wee Wee Mannie
Beckwith. Anansi and the Pig Coming from Market
Asbjørnsen. The Nanny Who Wouldn't Go Home
Clouston. The Nanny-Goat in the Garden
Paredes. Ram in the Chile Patch
McCloskey. The Billy Goat and the Nanny Goat
McCloskey. The Boy and the Goats
Parsons. Old Lady and her Wee Wee Goat
McCloskey. The Kid and the Cabbage
Kohut. Oh! come out, nanny-goat!
Gregor. The Wife an her Kidie
Newell. Kid Do Go
Haggadah: Chad Gadya
Kohut. The Grandchild and the Crow
Bellovin. Yekele
Newell. Jack Will Not Mow the Oats
Crane. Pitidda.
Campbell. Moorachug and Meenachug
Jacobs. Munachar and Manachar
Honey/Bleek. Judgment of Baboon
Steel. Grain of Corn.
ALOE. The Bird and the Ball.
Gordon. The Little Blackbird
The Little Bird that Found the Pea
Parker. The Female Quail
Leitner. The Vindictive Fowl
Grierson. Hen-Sparrow and Crow
Steel. The Sparrow and the Crow
Borooah. The Jackdaw and the Wren
The Old Woman and the Crow
Kunos. The Liver
Manjhi. The Parrot and the Maina
Bain. Sparrow and Bush
Crane. Godmother Fox

Additional versions online:
Welsh Gypsy Folktales: The Little Pig. There is a Welsh Gypsy version here, nothing special of note except that at the end the woman must fetch milk for the cat. It does have the original text side-by-side with the English translation.
Nova Scotia: The Old Woman and Her Pig. Several variants, but nothing unusual.


ATU 2030: This miscellaneous type consists of various chain tales in which a person (animal) wants an animal (person, object) to do something (go home, pick pears, grow, get some beer, eat, reap grain). The animal refuses. The person threatens him by asking someone else (person, animal, object, or element: e.g. dog, stick fire, water, butcher) for help. The request is not granted (the help is postponed until some demand can be met). Finally someone (hangman, angel of death, animal) obliges, and all the others in succession do what the person had wanted them to. In a few variants, a mouse eats cheese (wheat, wick of an eternal flame). A cat condemns the mouse and eats it as punishment; a dog eats the cat for eating the mouse. Each animal, object, or element is blamed for having damaged the one before it, and is then punished.

ATU 2015: The Goat Who Would Not Go Home. A boy is not able to bring his mischievous goat home. He asks people (hunter, shepherd, St. Nicholas), animals (bear, hare, dog, cat, mouse, pig) and/or objects (rope, water, fire) for help. None them can (will) make the goat go home. A wolf (bee, wasp, fly) bites (stings) the goat, and it runs home fast.

Z39.1.1. [now ATU 2030] The goat who would not go home. One animal after another tries in vain to persuade the goat to go home. Finally a wolf (bee) bites him and drives him home.
Taylor: The Goat who would not go home. The boy cannot persuade the goat to go home. At this suggestion various animals ask the goat to go home, but the goat always refuses until a bee (wolf) bites it and drives it home.  [Often contaminated with Mt. 2030, from which it must be carefully distinguished. In Mt. 2015 the sequence of animals has no logical interconnections.]

Z41 The old woman and her pig. Her pig will not jump over the stile so that she can go home. She appeals in vain for help until the cow gives her milk. The final formula is: cow give milk for cat, cat kill rat, rat gnaw rope, rope hang butcher; butcher kill ox; ox drink water; water quench fire; fire burn stick; stick beat dog; dog bite pig; pig jump over stile. (Various introductions.)
Z41.1. Woman has meat (liver) stolen by bird. Recovery chain (Similar to Z41).
Z41.2 Crow must wash his bill in order to eat with other birds. Asks water; water must first have horn from stag, who must first have milk from cow, etc.
Z41.3. Conflict between fowl and thistle. Wind obeys and breaks chain.
Z41.4.2 My dog picked up a string, but did not wish to give it to me unless I gave her bread. Cupboard did not wish to give bread unless I gave it a key; smith, charcoal; charcoal-burner, calf's legbone; butcher, milk; cow, grass; meadow, water; clouds, dove's feather. Dove gave me a feather which I gave to clouds, etc.
Z41.6 Bird's pea gets stuck in socket of mill-handle. She goes to carpenter, king, queen, who refuse to help. She asks snake to bite queen, stick to beat snake, fire to burn stick, etc. Final formula: cat eats mouse, mouse cuts plant creeper, creeper snakes elephant, elehpant drinks up sea, sea quenches fire, fire burns stick, stick beats snake, snake bites queen, queen speaks to king, king chides carpenter, carpenter cuts mill handle, and pea is extracted. Questions in rhyme.
Z41.6.1. Gram (parched grain) sticks in post; parrot goes to raja, etc. for help. Final formula: at last creeper took pity on birds, and elephant feared creeper, and ocean feared elephant, and fire feared ocean, and stick feared fire, and snake feared stick, and carpenter feared snake; and carpenter split post which gave up the grain to the birds, who went away.
Z41.7. The wormwood does not want to rock the sparrow. Final formula: the worms begin to gnaw the rods, the rods to beat the oxen, the oxen to drink the water, the water to quench the fire, the fire to burn the hunters, the hunters to shoot the wolves, the wolves to kill the goats, the goats to gnaw the wormwood, the wormwood to rock -- and it rocked and rocked me to sleep.
Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2003
Z41.7.1. Boy dirties his shoe and asks the hay stack to wipe it clean. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges
Z41.8. Pulling the needle out of the seamstress's hand. Final formula: That was just what the cat was waiting for - it sprang to devour the mouse, the mouse to tear the spider's web, the spider to entangle the dog, the dog to eat the goat, the goat to snaw the rushes, the rushes to grow in the stream, the stream to quench the fire, the fire to burn the stone, the stone to beat the axe, the axe soon pulled out the needle that was stuck in the seamstress's hand.
Z41.9. The lazy servant and the grain. Lentils, lentils, get into my sack! Final formula: the hungry hawk attacks the hens, the hens the worms, the worms the stick, the stick the ox, the ox runs to the water, the water attacks the fire, the fire the hunters, the hunters the wolf, the wolf the goat, the goat the willow, the willow the cat, the cat the mice, the mice the lentiles, the lentils go whoosh whoosh into the sack.
Z41.10 Sparrow orders crow to wash itself before eating, but pond refuses to allow the crow to bathe in it until he gets something for the pond.
Z41.11 Crow takes away pearl which sparrow has found. Ants agree to crawl up elephant's trunk if sparrow will not eat them; elephant agrees to suck pond dry if ants will not crawl up his trunk, etc.
Z41.12 Girl pulls green gourd which chases her. Animals help her: each is knocked down except bear which sits on gourd and breaks it. The animals are rewarded at farmer's house.



more information:

Ashliman: The Old Woman and Her Pig 2030

Goat Sheeding on One Side: Afanasyev
skinned goat: folktales of germany
Parsons JAFL XXXIII 34 [Hathi]
Emeneau JAFL LVI 272 [PDF]
Missouri French: Carriere [cumulative stories]

INDIA.
Emeneau [PDF]

Africa
Benga: Nassau 200 No. 30 [online at Hathi]
Gold Coast: Barker and Sinclair 177 No. 35 [online]
Ila (Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 392 No. 17 [online]
Thonga: Junod 223 [not online?]
Jamaican Beckwith MAFLS XVII 286 No. 138 [online]

Baughman 2030.
ABERDEEN
Gregor and Moir FL Journal 2:278, 1884 [online]
2:319, 1894 [online]
ENGLAND Clouston Fictions 1:289-294 1887: Cumulative Stories
YORK Gutch County No. 2:363, 1901 [not sure about numeration, but see Blakeborough referenced there: online]
RHODE ISLAND Dorson JAF 58:111, 1945 [PDF]
Johnson What They Say 198-202 1896 [online]
TEXAS Dobie PTFS 6:55, 1927 (see for notes and mention of two MS sources, neithre of which is reprinted)
MISSOURI: Randolph Turtle 61-62, 1957 [not online]
KENTUCKY M. Campbell tales 202-05, 1958 [not online]

Baughman
NORTH CAROLINA:
Chase Grandfather 213-22, 1948. [doc]

A Chain of Won'ts Abrahams - Afro-American
Contrarious Pig - Campbell - Cloudwalking

ATU 2029: MISCELLANEOUS
crystal rooster - italo calvino, italian
darning needle - lang yellow
godmother fox and feast day crane italian
nightingale that shrieked - bushnaq
stars in the sky - Jacobs More English

Spanish: Boggs 2030 A, B, C, D.
2030A. An ant plants chickpeas. Spanish. Ant plants chickpeas; becomes impatient because they do not begin to sprout next day; and asks gardener to remove tree under which she planted them. He refuses. She makes vain appeals until finally butcher threatenes to kill ox, ox to drink water, water to put out candle, candle to burn stick, stick to beat cat, cat to eat mouse, queen, king, justice, gardener's wife who persuades her husband to remove the ttree. RMQ II 45-6 note to line 20 = ed. of Rev. de Arch. Bib. y Museos 1916 I 474 note to line 3
2030B. Cock on way to wedding dirties beak by eating; asks mallow to clean beak; but mallow refuses. Cock asks sheep to eat mallow, etc. Finally God sends Death to take away smith. Smith now wants to break knife; knife to kill cow etc. and mallow cleans cock's beak. LRAC no. 177 (cock falls into ravine and gets dirty). ECPE no. 275 = ECRC no. 9 ECPE no. 276
2030C. Mouse eats old couple's cheese. Cat kills mouse for eating cheese. Dog kills cat for eating mouse. ECPE no. 277. LRAC no. 179
2030D. The pear will not fall. Goebel Birli. Handwb. d. dt. Marchens I 256-260
2030E. Der Bauer schickt den Jockel aus.
2030F. Jukel fetches wine. A special Bohemian form.
2030G. A goal is driven away from nuts or cabbage.
2030H. La chanson de Bricou (a cock). A characteristic French form.
2030J. A disobedient boy. T. Norlind Svenska Allmogens liv2 (1925) 613.
2030K. Das ist das Haus des holzernen Mannes. BP II 208; Haavia 89 n. I.

Spanish: Boggs 2030D ECPE no. 278 [not online]


ATU 2031. Stronger and Strongest


At this site:
Sibree. Ibotity.
Bompas. A Story on Caste
Mitra. The Cockroach's Relatives
Parker. The Brahmana's Kitten
Devi. A Rat's Swayamvara
La Fontaine. Mouse Metamorphosed into a Maid
Griffis. A Bridegroom for Miss Mole
Bryant. The Rat Princess
Fleeson. The Man in the Moon
Kohut. The Little Ant That Went to Jerusalem
Paredes. The Little Ant
(more to come!)

Z42 [ATU 2031] Stronger and Strongest. The frost-bitten foot. Mouse perforates wall, wall resists wind, wind dissolves cloud, cloud covers sun, sun thaws frost, frost breaks foot [L392]

ATU 2031. An ant (sparrow, hare) hurts himself on some ice, which he thinks must be the strongest thing in the world. The ice says this is not true, because the sun can melt it. The sun says it is not the strongest, because a cloud can obscure it. The cloud thinks a mountain is stronger. The mountain thinks grass or a mouse is stronger, the mouse thinks the cat is stronger, etc. (also fire, water, cattle, knife, butcher). The cat (rat, God, human) is finally the strongest, or the question remains undecided.

ATU 2031C. The Mightiest Being as Husband for the Daughter. A magician rescues a mouse (rat) which he transforms into a girl. Or, a childless couple wish for a child but instead have a mouse. The magician (parents) thinks the girl is the most beautiful creature in the world and wants to marry her to the mightiest husband. They ask the moon, who refuses and says the sun is brither than he. The sun refuses because the clouds cover him. The clouds say the wind blows them. The wind says the mountain (castle) stops him. The mountains says a mouse digs inside him. The mouse is therefore the mightiest and becomes the daughter's husband.

additional information:

Wikipedia The Mouse Turned into a Maid
Wikipedia The Husband of the Rat's Daughter
Wikipedia The Stonecutter

Ashliman: Mouse Who Was to Marry the Sun 2031C
see esp. Ashliman's translation from the German version of the Japanese story:
The Rats and Their Daughter

Panchatantra III.12. Benfey Pancatantra I 373-378, II 264
Aesop Other 74 [check Odo, Berechiah]
Cosquin I 32 [see notes at Hathi]
Chauvin II 97-98 [detailed bibliography]
Africa: Ekoi: Talbot 384 [online at Hathi]
Africa: Zanzibar: Bateman 67 No. 5 [online at Hathi]

Little Ant - Paredes Mexico
Thrush - Pino-Saavedra Folktales of Chile
Mouse and his Daughter - Megas - Greece
Spanish Boggs 2031. Bird has leg broken by snow. Cold wind blows. Bird cries, "Winds, move the clouds that hide the sun; sun, melt the snow that breaks the leg of a poor little bird like me!" California Span: Espinosa JAF XXVII 222. New Mexico: Espinosa JAF XXVII 138. LRAC no.186 [these are not online]

Cat and Mouse (Germany, Ernst Meier), type 2034.

From Hansen:
Rabbi Jehuda: 14 things: abyss, earth, mountains, etc.
fragment of Diphilos cited by Athenaeus in discussion of riddles: 3 Samian girls propose iron, blacksmith, penis (which Hansen says may be play upon iron/Ares, fire/Hephaistos, then water/Poseidon)
Suetonius: Caesar subdued Gaul, but Nikomedes Subdued Caesar

ATU 2034. The Mouse Regains its Tail


At this site:
Jacobs. The Cat and the Mouse
Lorimer. The Mouse's Tail
The Cat and the Mouse (Massachusetts)
(more to come!)

Z41.4 [ATU 2034] The mouse regains its tail. The cat bites off the mouse's tail and will return it in exchange for milk. The mouse goes to the cow for milk, the farmer for hay, the butcher for meat, the baker for bread. Other persons mentioned are the locksmith and the miner.

additional information:

Baughman 2034.
MASSACHUSETTS Cole JAF 13:228-29 1900 [Hathi]
NEW ENGLAND Johnson What They Say 207-09 1896 (two variants) [Hathi]
TEXAS Dobie PTFS 6:38-41 1927 (see for notes)

Basset Contes Berberes No. 45 [Hathi]
Nouveaux Contes Berberes No. 168 [Hathi]
Newell JAFL XVIII 1905 34 n. 1: Passover Song [Hathi]

Bird who lost his nose - Fowke - Canada
Get back the medicine - Dorson / World
Fox got back his tail - Bushnaq - arabic





ATU 2034C. Lending and Repaying


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).



ATU 2035. The House that Jack Built


At this site:
Lang. This is the house that Jack built
McCloskey. The Cock that Crowed in the Morn
McCloskey. What shall we have?
Blow. The Bowl of Milk
(more to come!)

Z44 [ATU 2035] The house that Jack built. Final formula: this is the farmer that sowed the corn that fed the cock that crowed in the morn, that waked the priest all shaven and shorn, that married the man all tattered and torn, that kissed the maiden all forlorn, that milked the cow with a crumpled horn, that tossed the dog, that worried the cat, that caught the rat, that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built.

additional information:

Wikipedia: This Is the House That Jack Built

Ashliman: The House That Jack Built 2035 [includes notes]

Africa: Fang: Nassau 245 ff. No. 11 [Chain of Circumstances online]
Africa: Zulu: Callaway 38 [part of longer story online]

Z44.1 The house the old man was to build. The woman for which he is to build the house has some beans for him. The goat eats these up. Cumulative search. Final formula: Smith give me my iron, iron which belongs to the man, man who ate up my fish, fish which belong to the sea . .  sea shirt washerwoman soap woman wood press grease herder cheeseframe figtree horn goat beans.

Parsons [online at Hathi / original]
JAFL XXV 29,
JAFL XXVII 222,
JAFL XXXIII (1920) 40-43 No. 3,
Memoirs = MAFLS XV (1) 207 n. 1.

ATU 2040. The Climax of Horrors


At this site:
Shyama. The Black Dog is Dead
Jethabhai. Tidings of the Thakore's Family

Z46 [ATU 2040] The climax of horrors. The magpie is dead. Overate on horseflesh. Horses dead? Overworked at fire. House burned down? etc.

ATU 2040. A man who has been away for a long time asks an acquaintance for news from home. The acquaintance tells him that his dog (raven) is dead. The man asks why, and is told that it too much horse (camel) flesh. The horse had been burned in its stall (died from exertion during a fire); the barn caught fire from the house; the fire had been started by candles in the house; the candles burned on the occasion of the death of the man's mother (wife).

additional information:

Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 203 No. 401 [online German only]
Wesselski Monchslatein 25 No. 20 [online German only]
T. Zachariae Kleine Schriften zur indischen Philologie (1920) 191ff "Die Quelle von A. Gruns Botenart" [online German only]
Crane Exempla of Jacques de Vitry 216ff. No. 205 [online at Hathi: lots of parallels!]

Goat Comes Back - Afanasjev
Si' Djeha Staved Off Hunger - Bushnaw - Arabic
News - Jacobs English Fairy Tales

Baughman 2040
ENGLAND Carpenter NCF 2:16 1954 2:16
TEXAS House Tall Talk 60-61 1944
TEXAS (newspaper) Carpenter NCF 2:16, 1954
WISCONSIN Baughman MS.
ARKANSAS Randolph Knapsack 54-55, 1958

and the folktale type is alive and well as an urban legend at Snopes.com: Climax of Horrors.






ATU 2042. Chain of Accidents


At this site:
Fansler. The Pugu's Case
Fleeson. Right and Might
Malto. The Tus Bird and the Kash Grass
Stack. Story of a Frog
Lewin. Consequences
Hutton/Shaw. Dao-Sharpening
Baskerville. Chief Kasuju

ATU 2042. Chain of accidents. This miscellaneous type consists of various chain tales in which a minor incident (insect sting, snakebite) causes a series of other events leading to someone's death (loss of valuable property).

ATU 2042A Trial among the animals. This miscellaneous type consists of various chain tales in which an animal is injured by another animal (accidentally or on purpose). The injury causes a series of accidents in which other animals are injured. At the end, a high-ranking animal (person) investigates the matter and discovers all that has happened.

Z49.6.1. Birds fight and cause series of accidents to other animals and people.

Z49.6.2. Bite (prick) causes series of accidents.

additional information
India: Thompson-Balys.
Lushai Shakespear Folk-Lore XX 389 [PDF]

Z49.6.3. Man sharpening his doa is bitten by a prawn. He cuts down a big bamboo; a fruit falls from bamboo and strikes a bird on the nape of the nake; the bird scratches up an ant's nest with his feet; the ant bites a wild boar in the eye; and the boar bears down upon a plantain tree where a bat dwells under a leaf; the bat seeks refused in the ear of an elephant, and the elephant kicks down the house of an old woman. She rushes out and falls into a well.

Z49.6 Trial among the animals. Deer steps on kitten: cat investigates. Deer has been frightened by bird, this bird by another bird... by crab's pointed claw, crab by mouse in his hold. Cat eats mouse. (Frog croaks because turtle carries his house on his head; turtle carries house because firefly is bringing fire; firefly brings fire because mosquito tries to bite him, etc.)

additional information:
Indonesian, Malaya: Dixon 202 (online at Internet Archive) - also Skeat: Who Killed the Otter's Babies (online) and see Fleeson-Laos: Might and Right (online)
India: NQ II No. 480 (online at Hathi: story is not a good match)

ATU 2300. Endless Tales


At this site:
Crane. The Treasure

ATU 2300. Endless Tales. Miscellaneous type. The narrator reports on something that takes a long time and says that he will continue the tale when it is completed. The following is the most common version: a shepherd has to take many sheep over a bridge, which is so narrow that they have to pass over one at a time. The listeners have to wait while each sheep crosses the bridge to the other side.

ATU 2302. Z39.3 [ATU 2302] The crow on the tarred bridge. His beak and tail alternately stick (Endless.) (Cf. Z11).
Endless Story - Japan - Clarkson and Cross / World

ATU 1415 Trading Away One's Fortune


At this site:
Jacobs. Mr. Vinegar
Baring-Gould. The Foolish Boy
Grimm (Hunt). Hans in Luck
My father he died
(more to come!)

ATU 1415 Trading Away One's Fortune
(J2081.1)

... and see also Roud 469. The Swapping Song.

additional information:
Wikipedia
Ashliman

barter: afanasyev
hedley kow: jacobs

Corea Orientalist II 102 (link)

ATU 1415 Trading Away One's Fortune
Gudbrand on the Hillside (Norway, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe).
What the Old Man Does Is Always Right (Denmark, Hans Christian Andersen)





ATU 130 Bremen Town Musicians (The Animals in Night Quarters)


At this site:
Jacobs. How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune
Jacobs. Jack and His Comrades
Grimm (Hunt). Bremen Town-Musicians
(more to come!)

ATU 130 Musicians of Bremen. Donkey, dog, cat and rooster are ill-treated by their owners because they are too old to work. They run away and find  a lonely house in the forest. Thieves come and begin to divide their money. The four animals climb on one another's backs and cry all at once. The thieves (robbers) are frightened and run away, leaving the money there. When the thieves try to come back, the animals hide in various parts of the house and attack them with their characteristic powers. The four animals drive the thieves away and live happily ever after.
= B296 (animals run away), K335 (climb), attack (K1161)

B296 NINQ 2.440
B296.1 Temple Legends 223, 234 / Swynnerton Upper Indus 6 / Grierson Survey 6.115, Frere Deccan 305, Natesa Sastri Folklore 26
K335 Rewa: Elwin Mahakoshal 254; Bastar: Elwin Mahakoshal 259; Malto - Archer Man in India 24 212 ff. Parker 3.162
K1161 NINQ 2.440; Lewison JRAS Beng. 5.352; Lushai Parry 544; Pawsey Hutton JRAS Beng. 5.283; New Goa: Davidson-Phelps38.14

additional information:
Ashliman: The Bremen Town Musicians

Cat that went a-traveling in Clarkson and Cross, World's Folktales; also: Cloudwalking Country
Goat and Fox - Crane Italian
How the animals kept the lions away: bushnaq arabic
Nung Kua Ma. Eberhard China
Ram and Pig Who Went into the Woods; Asbjornsen and Moe
struggle between the wolf and the fox; ranke, folktales of germany
the white pet; campbell, highlands

130A Outcast animals build a new home
Bear and Cock, Afanasyv
Brer Rabbit secures a mansion; harris, nights with uncle remus
Ram who lost half his skin, afanasyev

ATU 130 Musicians of Bremen
The Bremen Town Musicians (Germany).
The Robber and the Farm Animals (Germany/Switzerland).
The Sheep and the Pig Who Set Up House (Norway).
The Animals and the Devil (Finland).
The Choristers of St. Gudule (Flanders)
The Story of the White Pet (Scotland).
The Bull, the Tup, the Cock, and the Steg (England).
Jack and His Comrades (Ireland).
How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune, version 1 (USA).
How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune, version 2 (USA).
The Dog, the Cat, the Ass, and the Cock (USA).
Benibaire (Spain).
The World's Reward (South Africa).


ATU 122F Wait till I am Fat Enough


At this site:
Steel. The Lambikin
(more to come I hope!)

122F. Wait till I am Fat Enough. A captured animal (hog, sheep, dog) persuades his captor (wolf) to wait until he is fat enough to eat. Thus he escapes.

** Notice that this tale type has nothing to do with the chain motif. That makes the bibliography here less useful for finding additional stories like Steel's Lambikin where the captured animal escapes from a series of captors, then eludes that series of captors, until finally falling victim to the first/last in the series.

K553. Wait till I get fat:
Knight 96; OConnor 7 and 10; Lepcha-Stocks 371.15; Nath 1-12; Balochi: Dames Folklore 3.522; Malto Archer MiI 24.215; Bastar: Elwin Mahakoshal 411; Mandla: Elwin Mahakoshal 412

additional information:
Ashliman: Eat Me When I'm Fatter

ATU 20C-D. Animals Flee - The Animals on a Pilgrimage


At this site:
Cowell-Francis-Neil. The Flight of the Animals (India)
Jacobs. Henny-Penny (England)
Edwards. The Sky is Falling (Antigua)
Schiefner. The Flight of the Beasts (Tibet)
The Fox's Pilgrimage to Mecca
Crane. Cock that Wished to Become Pope
(more to come!)

This is a big change: originally the Z-series in Thompson would have made this a 2000-series in the ATU (it was 2033 in the old Aarne-Thompson catalog), but instead in the ATU it is now 20C. Because 20A and 20D are also of interest, I have listed them here also. (There is no 20B.)

also: B296 (animals on a journey), K1024 (eliminate one by one)
J1812 (frightened by noise)
B296.1 (rooster on pilgrimage to Rome)

20A Animals Caught in a Pit Eat One Another Up. A number of animals (fox, wolf, bear, hog, rooster, hen, goat, cat, nare, mouse) go on a journey (a pilgrimage) together to seek their fortunes. They try to jump over a pit but all into it instead. When they grow hungry, the fox proposes that they eat the one amongst them with the ugliest name (who can sing highest or loudest, who can howl the longest, who is the youngest or smallest). Thus all the animals are eaten one after another until only two (fox and wolf) remain or only the fox is left.

20C. Animals Flea in Fear of the End of the World. A chicken (cat, mouse) is frightened by a nut (acorn, leaf) that falls on its head (tail) or another animal is frightened by a noise (a fart). The chicken thinks this is a sign of an approaching war (the end of the world, the sky is falling down), and flees in panic together with the rooster (they go to tell the king about the disaster). They meet other animals (e.g. goose, hare, dog, bear, wolf, fox) who come to share their fear and go along with them. The misunderstanding is cleared up, or the animals fall into a pit. In some variants they arrive at the fox's den. The fox invites them inside and eats them.

20D. Pilgrimage of the Animals. A rooster wants to go to Rome in order to become pope. his wife accompanies him, along with more and more other animals. They meet the fox, who invites them to rest in his den. He asks them to sing, and eats them one by one afterwards. Often the fox pretends to go on a pilgrimage (to a convent). Other animals (chicken, duck, goose, magpie, sparrow) go along with him. The fox asks to hear their confessions or accuses them of sings which are characteristic of the different kinds of animals. Then the fox eats them as a punishment. In some variants the fox tells the rooster (partridge, lark) that he has become religious and repents his past actions, or he dresses as a nun. Then he reproaches the rooster with his sons (his polygamy) and offers to hear his confession. When the rooster comes near, the fox catches him and gobbles him up. Or the rooster escapes by a ruse.

additional information:

Wikipedia: Henny Penny
Ashliman: End of the World / Sky Is Falling 20C / 2033
Cock and Hen that Went to the Dovrefell. Asbjornsen and Moe, East o' the Sun (Dasent at Baldwin)
Africa: Kidd Savage childhood (1906) 240 No. 9 [online at Hathi]
African-American: (Georgia) Harris Nights 108. No. 20 [online at Hathi]

0020 Eat the Smallest First:
Booss Scandinavian: End of the World + Little Chicken Kluk
Lion in the Well. Abrahams, Afro-American
Six hungry beasts: Lang Crimson (Finnish)
0020A Animals in a Pit
Beasts in a Pit: Afanasyev
0020D Cock as Pope
Nun Vixen. Megas, Folktales of Greece
Plop (Tibet) - Clarkson and Cross / World

ASHLIMAN:
End of the World / Sky Is Falling 20C / 2033
The Story of Chicken-Licken (England, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps).
Henny-Penny and Her Fellow Travelers (Scotland, Robert Chambers).
The End of the World (Ireland).
The Cock and the Hen That Went to Dovrefjell (Norway, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe).
The Little Chicken Kluk and His Companions (Denmark, Benjamin Thorpe).
The End of the World (Flanders, Jean de Bosschère).
Brother Rabbit Takes Some Exercise (African-American, Joel Chandler Harris).








ATU 1430 Air Castles


At this site:
Bompas. The Daydreamer
Jacobs. The Broken Pot
Parker. The Kitul Seeds
Parker. The Pots of Oil
Pantulu. Castle-Building
Swynnerton. Vessel of Butter
Stokes. Jar of Ghee
Upreti. Eating the Sweetmeats of Fancy
Fleeson. A Lazy Man’s Plot
Dracott. Sheikh Chilli
Lady Burton. The Barber's Tale of his Fifth Brother
(more to come!)

ATU 1430 Air Castles. Three different forms:
1. A poor unmarried couple (father and son, two brothers, herdsmen, maidservants, other people) plan to turn their possessions (glassware, milk, honey, eggs, money) into great wealth (herds of animals, houses). As they imagine this wealth, they destroy what they already have.
2. A person (poor man, hunter, Gypsy, married couple) dreams of having a valuable possession (catch from hunting, etc.), which he then tries to obtain. His efforts fail because he imagines his success (e.g. the hunter is so excited that he frightens his prey).
3. A married couple (other people) imagine that they will obtain the means to achieve future wealth, but they disagree abotu how to manage it. One wants to keep reinvesting the future profits, while the other wants to enjoy part of the wealth.

J2060, J2061,
Bannu: Thorburn 207 (link: sheep in hedge)
Dames Folk-Lore III. 527 (Baluchistan)
Taylor Folk-Lore VI 403 (link: Sheik Chilli)
Telugu: Pantulu Ind. Antiquities 112 #22
O'Connor Indo-Tibetan 6 (tiger and man: 1-2-3)
Lewison JRAS Beng. V. 394: toad having money daydreams
Swynnerton Raja Rasalu 163 (link): silly mourners in advance

additional information:
Wikipedia
Ashliman: Air Castles

from ATU: Indian origin, see Hitopadesha (4.7) and Kalila wa Dimna (60). Known in Europe since Middle Ages: de Vitry Sermones (Crane edition 51).
additional bibliography (I have listed only what I am likely to find): Kirchhof/Oesterley 1869 I.1.171
Schwarzbaum 1968: 61ff. 455
Tubach 1969 Nos. 80, 3286
Hansen 2002: 138-142
Krzyzanowski 1962f. II

beggar's plan - afanasyev
day dreaming - jacobs (europa)
daydreamer - afanasyev
don't count your chickens - bushnaq arabic
don't count your chickens - clouston, popular tales (bibliography?)
lad and the fox - booss, scandinavian
lazy heinz - grimm
lean lisa - grimm
milkmail and her pail - jacobs aesop (get more Aesop)

1430A: Foolish concerns for an unborn child; cf. 1450.
Lutoniushka - afanasyev
sievemaker and the ass - megas, folktales

ATU 1430 Air Castles
The Poor Man and the Flask of Oil (India, Bidpai).
The Story of the Devotee Who Spilt the Jar of Honey and Oil (India / Persia).
What Happened to the Ascetic When He Lost His Honey and Oil (Kalilah and Dimnah).
Sheik Chilli (India, Alice Elizabeth Dracott).
The Fakir and His Jar of Butter (1001 Nights).
Day-Dreaming (1001 Nights, retold by Joseph Jacobs).
The Milkmaid and Her Pail (Aesop).
Story of an Old Woman, Carrying Milk to Market in an Earthen Vessel (France, Jacques de Vitry).
What Happened to a Woman Called Truhana (Spain, Prince Don Juan Manuel).
The Dairywoman and the Pot of Milk (France, Jean de La Fontaine).
Lazy Heinz (Germany, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm).
Lean Lisa (Germany, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm).
Buttermilk Jack (England, Thomas Hughes).
The Lad and the Fox (Sweden, Gabriel Djurklou).
The Peasant and the Cucumbers (Russia, Leo Tolstoy).
The Milkmaid and Her Bucket (USA, Ambrose Bierce).
Link to The $30,000 Bequest (Mark Twain).

ATU 555 Fisherman's Wife


At this site:
Grimm (Hunt). The Fisherman and His Wife
(more to come!)

ATU 555 Fisherman's Wife

see also: C773.1, J514, Q338, L420
J514.5 Telugu: Pantulu 70


additional information:
Wikipedia
Ashliman

goldfish - afanasyev
little sardine - delarue, french folktales
the stonecutter: lang, crimson (plus other south asian version)
wanto and the shapeless thing (cameroun): dorson, folktales

ATU 555 Fisherman's Wife
The Fisherman and His Wife (Germany).
Hanns Dudeldee (Germany).
The Old Man, His Wife, and the Fish (Russia).
The Stonecutter (Japan).
(and get the version from Burma!)


ATU 15 Theft of Food


At this site:
The Cat who Ate the Kheer

ATU 15 Theft of Food (by playing godfather). The motifs: K372 for diminution of the food, and K401.1 for the trial.

Need to add Brothers Grimm. Russian.

biyera well - el-shamy, folktales of egypt
brer goat - saucier, french louisiana
bruin and reynard, asbjornsen and moe, east o' the sun
cat and mouse in partnership grimm
fos and heron - o'sullivan folktales of ireland
fox as midwife - afanasjev
hare, leopard, and cow: arewa, northern east africa
littlehen and little cock ranke folktales of germany
mister rabbit nibbles up the butter harris uncle remus
mrs. fox and mister wolf calvino italian
possum he didn't east. randolph hot springs and hell
rabbit fool the panther dorson negro tales
reynard and bruin. jacobs europa
stealing the butter. dorson, negro tales
tub of butter dorson folktales around the world
why dawg hate puss. dance. folklore from contemporary jamaicans
walf and fox. massignon, folktales of france




ATU 295. Bean (Mouse), Straw and Coal


At this site:
no stories yet


ATU 295. Bean (Mouse), Straw and Coal. A piece of coal and a straw escape from the fire in a stove. A bean escapes from a pot on top of the fire. They go on a journey. When they have to cross a river, the straw serves as a bridge. The coal burns the straw in two and both fall into the water and drown. The bean laughs at them until it bursts. Someone sews the bean together, and that is why beans have a black stripe.

41.4.1 [now ATU 295] Mouse bursts open when crossing a stream. Series of helpers similar to Z41.4. now ATU 295... unless there is a long series of helpers (?) this does not seem a likely tale type for me to use.

additional information:

[Scottish at Hathi]