ATU 1479* The Old Maid on the Roof (previously The Youth Promises to Marry the Old Maid)

ATU 1479*

The Old Maid on the Roof (previously The Youth Promises to Marry the Old Maid)

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

A youth promises to marry an old maid if she will sit all night on the roof. She falls down. 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.