Thumbling drives wagon by sitting in horse's ear

Motif

Thumbling drives wagon by sitting in horse's ear.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Exceptionally large or small men. · view the constellation · filed as F535.1.1.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general Type 700
general BP I 389.

Within the index

Filed under Adventures of thumbling. See Type 700 for detailed adventures.

1 finer motif beneath it

Thumbling drives mule

Filed beside it

Thumbling carried up chimney by steam of food Thumbling lies by sleeping man. Is blown to window by man's breath Thumbling in danger of being sucked in by man's breath Thumbling lost in animal track Thumbling has cat as riding-horse Thumbling swallowed by animals Thumbling imprisoned in a sausage Thumbling sold as freak Thumbling hides in small place Thumbling as accomplice to robbers Thumbling carries needle as sword Thumbling carried in pocket Thumbling carried on hat brim. (See F531.5.1.1.3. for a similar motif.)

Carried in tale types

Thumbling (previously Tom Thumb) · ATU 7001 recorded variant

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