ATU 1642 The Good Bargain

ATU 1642

The Good Bargain

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

Suitor test: making princess laugh. Sadfaced princess has never laughed. 2 variants
Witness claims the borrowed coat: discredited. Trickster summoned to court on Jew's complaint refuses to go unless he has a new coat: Jew lends him his. In court the trickster says that the Jew is a liar: "He will even claim that I am wearing his coat." The Jew does so and no one believes him. 2 variants
Strokes shared. The boy promises the soldier what the king has promised to give him. The soldier receives a beating in place of the boy. 2 variants
Goods sold to object. 1 variant
Fool sells goods to a statue. He is told not to sell to talkative people. The statue is the only one he can find who is not talkative. 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.