ATU 1314 Mistaking Harmless Objects for Dangerous Ones (previously The Buttercask Taken for a Dead Man)

ATU 1314

Mistaking Harmless Objects for Dangerous Ones (previously The Buttercask Taken for a Dead Man)

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

Big tree thought to be snake. Killed with guns and spears. 1 variant
Butter cask thought to be a dead man. Fools knock it in two. 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.