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ATU. Types of International Folktales

Title: The Types of International Folktales
Author: Hans-Jorg Uther (Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson)
Year: 2004

The "formula tales" begin with 2000 and above, but see also the tale types below which contain chains and series in at least some versions.

ATU 2009 Origin of Chess
ATU 2010 One: Who Knows?
   ATU 2010A Twelve Days of Christmas
ATU 2011 Where have you been, goose?
ATU 2012 Days of the Week
ATU 2013 A woman; she had a son
ATU 2014. Chains of Contradictions/Extremes
ATU 2015 = see ATU 2030
ATU 2016. Wee Wee Woman
ATU 2017 = see ATU 2300
ATU 2018 = see ATU 2043
ATU 2019 Pif Paf Poltrie
(there is no  2020)
ATU 2021. The Rooster and the Hen
   ATU 2021B. The Rooster Strikes Out the Hen's Eye
ATU 2022 The Death of the Little Hen
   ATU 2022B The Broken Egg
ATU 2023. Little Ant Marries
ATU 2024. Rabbit Borrows Money
ATU 2025. The Fleeing Pancake
(there is no 2026)
ATU 2027 = see ATU 2028
ATU 2028. The Devouring Animal
(there is no 2029)
ATU 2030. The Old Woman and her Pig
ATU 2031. Stronger and Strongest: including 2031C
   ATU 2031A. The Esdras Chain
   ATU 2031B. Abraham learns to worship God
ATU 2032. The Healing of the Injured Animal
ATU 2033 = see ATU 20C
ATU 2034. The Mouse Regains its Tail
   ATU 2034C+F. Lending and Repaying
ATU 2035. The House that Jack Built
ATU 2036. Drop of Honey Causes Accidents
ATU 2037 = see ATU 2034C
(there is no 2038)
ATU 2039. Horseshoe Nail
ATU 2040. The Climax of Horrors
ATU 2041. The Bird Indifferent to Pain
ATU 2042. Chain of Accidents
ATU 2043. Where is the warehouse?
ATU 2044. Pulling up the Turnip

ATU 2300. Endless Tales

~ ~ ~

ATU 15 Theft of Food
ATU 20 Animals Flee - Animals on a Pilgrimage
ATU 93 The Master Taken Seriously
ATU 122F Wait Till I Am Fat Enough
ATU 130 Musicians of Bremen
ATU 151 Man Teaches Wild Animal to Play Fiddle
ATU 157A The Lion Searches for Man
ATU 173 Life Spans Readjusted.
ATU 210 Rooster, Hen, Duck, Pin, and Needle
ATU 295 Bean (Mouse), Straw, and Coal
ATU 332 Godfather Death.
ATU 334 Household of the Witch.
ATU 555 Fisherman's Wife
ATU 571 All Stick Together.
ATU 1215 The Miller, His Son, and the Donkey

ATU 2009 Origin of chess


At this site:
The Invention of Chess

Z21.1 [ATU 2009] Origin of chess. Inventor asks one wheat-grain for first square, two for the second, four for the third, eight for the fourth, etc. The king cannot pay.

additional information:

Murray History of Chess (Oxford 1913) 207-9, 755 [online at Internet Archive]

see also Wikipedia:
Wheat and Chessboard Problem
Powers of Two / The Chess Number



ATU 2010 Ehod mi yodea (One: Who Knows?)


At this site:
Kohut. Ehad mi-Yode'a
Kohut. Dic mihi: quid est unus?
Sharp. The Ten Commandments
Children, Go Where I Send Thee!
Newell. Come and I Will Sing You
Baring-Gould. The Dilly Song
Rubin. Green Grow the Rushes
Spanish: Las doce palabras retorneadas [online at Hathi]
(more to come!)

21.2 [ATU 2010]. Ehod mi yodea (One; who knows?); Le dodici parole della verita; Las doce palabras retorneadas. The numbers from one to twelve are brought into relation with various objects, often objects of religious significance.
See also: ATU 2010A Twelve Days (Gifts) of Christmas

additional information:
Wikipedia: Echad Mi Yodea

ATU 2010A Twelve Days (Gifts) of Christmas


At this site:
Twelve Days of Christmas
Gilbert. In These Twelve Days
The Gaping, Wide-mouthed, Waddling Frog

ATU 2010A:
Z21.2.1. The Twelve Days (Gifts) of Christmas: 1 partridge, 2 turtle-doves, 3 French hens, 4 colly birds, 5 gold rings 6 geese 7 swans 8 mais 9 drummers 10 pipers 11 ladies 12 lords.
Z21.2.2. The Twelve Kinds of Food: 1 partridge 2 turtledoves 3 woodpigeons 4 ducks 5 rabbits 6 hares 7 hounds 8 sheep 9 oxen 10 turkeys 11 hams 12 cheese.
Z23. How the Rich Man paid his Servant (Lonen hos den rike man). A farmer pays his servant in the first year a hen, in the second a cock, goose, goat, cow, horse, . . . girl, farmstead.




ATU 2011 Where have you been, goose?


At this site:
no stories yet

Z39.4. Where have you been, goose? In the fields. What have you in your beak? A knife. etc. (Tile, water, ox, firewood, old woman, friars, mass, shirt).

Spanish: Boggs 2018A. LRAC no. 185, ECPE no. 280 [not online]

ATU 2011. Facetious questions and answers built upon the anatomy of an animal.

ATU 2012 Days of the Week


At this site:

ATU 2012: Z24.1.3. Solomon Grundy. This miscellaneous type comprises various chain tales in which the months of the year, days of the week, or hours of the day are connected to actions or events:
1. A forgetful man enumerates the chores done on various days of the week and comes to the conclusion that today must be Sunday.
2. A widower relates how he courted, married, and buried his wife within a single week.
3. The chief events of a human life, from birth to death, are assigned to hours of the day.
4. In a children's rhyme, the main events of human life, from birth to death, are assigned to the various days of the week.
5. A bird gives a father instructions for educating his lazy children. She tells him what she does for her chicks each month from March to August, when they are ready to fly away.





ATU 2013 There was once a woman; she had a son


At this site:
no stories yet

Z49.4 [ATU 2013] There once was a woman, the woman had a son, the son had red breeches, the breeches had black buttons, etc. etc. At last: Shall I tell it again?

ATU 2013. This miscellaneous type comprised of rounds in which a narrator repeats his rale in a never-ending cycle. For example, articles of clothing (parts of the body) are enumerated or described.

ATU 2014. Chains Involving Contraditions or Extremes


At this site:
Baughman. That's Tough
Jacobs. News!
Martin. That's good. No, that's bad.

Z51.1 [ATU 2014]. Chains involving contradictions or extremes. The house is burned down. That is too bad. That is not bad at all, my wife burned it down. That is good. That is not good, etc.

ATU 2014. This miscellaneous type comprised of various chain tales that feature contradictions or extremes. The following are the most common variants:
1. A man who has recently been married meets a friend (neighbor, stranger) who tells him what has happened at home while he was absent. The friend makes the events sound positive, but as the married man asks for more information, the situation turns out to be disasterous. During their conversation they exchange other news. For example, one says that a goat (hog) ate a giant cabbage and became fat enough to be slaughtered. Questions and answers follow, with comments like, "That's good" - "No, not so good" - "That's bad" - "No, not so bad." One tells the other his house burned down. "That's too bad," answers the other, but the first man says, "No, it's not so bad, because my wife died in the fire."
2. Two godparents (strangers) discuss a coin (saw, pea) which one of them has found (lost). The conversation conveys alternating incidents or commentary. At the end, one tells the other that he killed a wolf which had eaten a wild boar. The other says, "That's good." The first replies, "Yes, it is good, but not very good, because the squire claimed its skin."

additional information:

Baughman 2014A (was 2014). The House Is Burned Down.
MISSOURI: Randolph Turtle 72-73 1957

Nouvelles Recreations No. 75 (online at Hathi; French only)
De Janin, nouvellement marié. Janin s'estoit marié la sienne fois, et avoit pris une femme qui jouoit des manequins, laquelle ne s'en cachoit point pour luy, ne voulant point faire de tort au beau nom de son mary. Quelque jour un des voisins de Janin luy faisoit des demandes, et luy faisoit les responses, en forme d'une assez plaisante farce.
   Or ça, Janin, vous estes marié?
Et Janin respondit: O voire!
   Cela est bon, disoit l'autre.
Pas trop bon pourtant, disoit Janin.
   Et pourquoy?
Elle ha trop mauvaise teste.
   Cela est mauvais.
Pas trop mauvais pourtant.
   Et pourquoy?
Et pourquoy? C'est une des belles de nostre parroisse.
   Cela est bon.
Pas trop bon aussi.
   Et pourquoy?
II y a un monsieur qui la vient veoir à toute heure.
   Cela est mauvais.
Pas trop mauvais pourtant.
   Et pourquoy?
II me donne tousjours quelque chose.
   Cela est bon.
Pas trop bon aussi.
   Et pourquoy?
II m'envoye tousjours deçà, delà.
   Cela est mauvais.
Pas trop mauvais pourtant.
   Et pourquoy?
II me baille de l'argent, dequoy je fais grand chere par les chemins.
   Cela est bon.
Pas trop bon aussi.
   Et pourquoy?
Je suis à la pluye et au vent.
   Cela est mauvais.
Pas trop mauvais pourtant.
   Et pourquoy?
Je y suis tout accoustumé.
Achevez le demeurant si voulez, ceste cy est à l'usage d'estrivieres.

ATU 2016. Wee Wee Woman


At this site:
Welsh. The Story of Teeny-Tiny
(I hope I can find some more examples)


Z39.2 [ATU 2016] There was a wee wee woman who had a wee wee cow, etc.

ATU 2016. Once there was a teeny tiny woman who had a teeny tiny cow which she milked into a teeny tiny pail. A teeny tiny cat drawnk all the milk. The woman killed the cat (it died), and all the milk flowed back into the pail, etc.



ATU 2019 Pif Paf Poltrie


At this site:
Grimm (Hunt). Pif-Paf-Poultrie
(more to come I hope!)

Z31.1 [ATU 2019] Pif Paf Poltrie. The suitor sent from one relation to the other for consent to the wedding. Each member of a family is assigned a characteristic function; various wooers appear and are rejected until the one which is apparently the most unpromising is chosen.

ATU 2019. A suitor (suitors) with a peculiar name (.e.g Pif Paf Poltrie) asks a father for his daughter's hand in marriage. The father consents and sends the suitor to other relatives, who also consent. The suitor asks the bride about her dowry, which is poor. She asks him what his profession is. He is not a tailor, shoemaker, farmer, carpenter, or smith, but a maker of brooms.

additional information:
Wikipedia: Fair Katrinelje and Pif-Paf-Poltrie

ATU 2021. The Rooster and the Hen


At this site:
Dasent. The Cock and Hen A-Nutting
Wardrop. The Grasshopper and the Ant
(more to come!)

ATU 2021. The Rooster and the Hen. A hen (rooster, cat, other animal, young woman) has a nut (cherry pit, a corn, etc.) stuck in her throat (dies in some other way). A rooster goes to get water for the hen to drink, but the water sends him to get red silk from a bride first. The bride sends him to get a wreath, etc.
Or, the rooster asks for help from various animals (pig, cow, etc.) people (miller, baker, shoemaker, etc.) and/or objects (river, tree, etc.). When the rooster comes back with the water, the hen is already dead.
The rooster buries the hen and then dies from grief. (The hen who had been choking is bumped and the nut becomes dislodged from her throat.)

Z32.1 [ATU 2021] The funeral procession of the hen. Animals one by one join the procession. The funeral carriage breaks down or the procession drowns.




ATU 2021B. The Rooster Strikes Out the Hen's Eye


At this site:
Afanasjev. Rooster and Hen

Z43.2 The cock strikes out the hen's eye with a nut. The cock blames the hazel bush for tearing its knickers, the hazel bush the goat for gnawing at it, the goat the shepherd-boy for not tending it, the boy his mistress for not baking him a bun, the mistress the pig for eating up the dough, the pig the wolf for killing its young.

ATU 2021B: A rooster throws a nut that strikes out the hen's eye. He blames the hazelnut bush, because it tore his pants. The bush blames the goat for eating its leaves. The goat blames the herdsman who did not give him good pasture; the herdsman blames his master for not giving him enough to eat, etc.


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 2022B The Broken Egg


At this site:
Afanasjev. The Hen

Z39.5. The hen lays an egg; the mouse breaks it. Sorrowing over his mishap, all show extraordinary behavior: the masters puts an end to it. Final formula: hen strips off feathers, rubbish heap catches fire, oak falls to ground, hare drowns self, magpie twists leg, ox breaks horns, river flows blood, maid breaks pails, housewife scatters dough.

ATU 2022B. The Broken Egg. A hen lays an egg which breaks (a mouse breaks it). All the witnesses show their grief at this misfortune. For example, the hen ruffles her feathers, the rubbish begins to burn, the stairs creak, the oak falls down, the magpie sprains his leg, the ox breaks his horns, the river flows with blood, the maidservant breaks her jug, the housewife smears dough on the wall, etc. The master locks his wife up and the maidservant goes to look for people who are equally stupid, etc.


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 2024. Rabbit Borrows Money


At this site:
Beckwith. The Chain of Victims.

Z32.4. Cumulative: master to kill hen. She begs off; he goes to kill rooster... goose, rabbit, toad, tiger. Chinese: Graham. (not online)

ATU Rabbit Borrows Money. A rabbit borrows money from a beetle, a hen, a fox, a dog, a tiger, and a hunter. When the beetle asks for the money back, the rabbit tells him to wait behind to count the money. Instead, the hen eats the beetle, then the fox eats the hen, etc.


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