ATU 1750 The Hen Learns to Speak (previously The Parson's Stupid Wife

ATU 1750

The Hen Learns to Speak (previously The Parson's Stupid Wife

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

Teaching chickens to talk. Fool believes they can be taught. 1 variant
Educated chickens tell of woman's adultery. A trickster undertakes to teach a woman's chickens to talk. When he reports that they are saying that she has slept with the priest, she pays him off. 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.