ATU 1245 Sunlight Carried in a Bag (Basket, Sieve) into the Windowless House

ATU 1245

Sunlight Carried in a Bag (Basket, Sieve) into the Windowless House

Aarne–Thompson–Uther tale-type index · Anecdotes And Jokes · The full type description is not served here; the number and name are the classification facts.

Motifs the recorded variants carry

White sheep-skin used as a source of light. 1 variant
Trying to catch light in a mouse-trap. 1 variant
Sunlight carried into windowless house in baskets. When this plan does not succeed, they gradually pull down the house to get light. 1 variant

Type numbers and names after Aarne–Thompson–Uther, via Hagedorn, trilogy (2022), CC-BY-NC-SA; motif links weighted by the dataset’s recorded tale variants. Served as classification facts with attribution.