ATU 1525A Tasks for a Thief (previously Theft of Dog, Horse, Sheet, or Ring)

ATU 1525A

Tasks for a Thief (previously Theft of Dog, Horse, Sheet, or Ring)

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

Theft as a task. 6 variants
Task: stealing twelve horses out of stall. (Cf. H1151.13.3.) 6 variants
Theft by making owner drunk. 6 variants
Ring to put on corpse's finger. A thief holds a corpse up to a lord's window. The lord shoots the corpse and leaves to bury it. The thief goes to the lady and gets a sheet to bury the corpse in and a ring to put on his finger. 6 variants
Task: stealing sheet from bed on which person is sleeping. 3 variants
Task: stealing ring from finger. 3 variants
Brothers acquire extraordinary skill. Return home and are tested. 2 variants
Tasks assigned because of girl's (boy's) own foolish boast. 2 variants
Youth learns robbery as a trade: boasts of it. 2 variants

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.