ATU 1640 The Brave Tailor

ATU 1640

The Brave 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 married to princess betrays trade by calling for needle and thread. 2 variants
Throwing contest: golden club on the cloud. Trickster shows the ogre the club he has thrown. (Really only a bright spot on the cloud.) (Cf. K1746.) 2 variants
Throwing contest: bird substituted for stone. The ogre throws a stone; the hero a bird which flies out of sight. 2 variants
Contest in pushing hole in tree: hole prepared beforehand. Hero and ogre to vie in pushing a hole in a tree with their heads. 2 variants
Contest in squeezing water from a stone. The ogre squeezes a stone; the trickster a cheese or egg. 2 variants
Contest in biting a stone. The ogre bites a stone; the man a nut. 2 variants
Deceptive contest in carrying a tree: riding. The trickster has the dupe carry the branches of a tree while he carries the trunk. He rides on the trunk. 2 variants
Deceptive contest in carrying a horse. The ogre carries it on his back and soon tires; the man carries it between his legs (rides). 2 variants
Substituted object left in bed while intended victim escapes. 2 variants
Wildboar captured in church. 2 variants
Unicorn tricked into running horn into tree. 2 variants
Ogres (large animals, sharp-elbowed women) duped into fighting each other. Trickster strikes one so that he thinks the other has done it. 2 variants
Bending the tree. Hero bends tree over but when he catches breath the tree shoots him to the sky. 2 variants
Runaway cavalry-hero. When the sham hero goes to war his horse runs away with him. To save himself he grasps a cross from a graveyard and waves it from side to side, putting the enemy to flight. 2 variants
Sham-warrior intimidates soldiers with his boasting. 2 variants
Boastful fly-killer: "seven at a blow". A tailor who has killed seven flies writes on a placard: "Seven at a blow." He is received as a great warrior. 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.