ATU 1539 Cleverness and Gullibility

ATU 1539

Cleverness and Gullibility

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

Alleged gold-dropping animal sold. 1 variant
Alleged bill-paying hat sold. 1 variant
Alleged self-cooking kettle sold. 1 variant
Alleged resuscitating wand sold. (Cf. D1254.1.) 1 variant
Rabbit sold as letter-carrier. Alleged to be a swift deliverer of letters. 1 variant
Wolf sold as a goat (sheep). 1 variant
Sham death to wound enemies. Trickster lets himself be buried alive and stabs his enemies from the grave when they come to defile his body. 1 variant
Teaching Latin. Cuts off tip of pupil's tongue or orders him to lick cold iron – pupil injures himself. 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.