ATU 1408 The Man who Does his Wife's Work

ATU 1408

The Man who Does his Wife's Work

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

Three-legged pot sent to walk home. 1 variant
Numskull ties the rope to his leg as the cow grazes on the roof. The cow falls off and the man is pulled up the chimney. 1 variant
Fool tries to dry up spilt wine with meal. 1 variant
A man undertakes to do his wife's work. All goes wrong. 1 variant
Washing the child. Fool uses boiling water and kills it. 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.