ATU 1574A The Stolen Piece of Cloth (previously The Oversight of the Thievish Tailor)

ATU 1574A

The Stolen Piece of Cloth (previously The Oversight of the Thievish Tailor)

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

Tailor throws piece of cloth out of the window. The stingy woman has the tailor come to her house to cut cloth. He throws a piece out of the window, "the devil's share". While the woman has gone after it he cuts off a piece for himself. 1 variant
Thievish tailor cuts a piece of his own coat. 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.