ATU 2022 The Death of the Little Hen

ATU 2022

The Death of the Little Hen

Aarne–Thompson–Uther tale-type index · Formula Tales · The full type description is not served here; the number and name are the classification facts.

Motifs the recorded variants carry

The death of the little hen. She is characteristically mourned by objects and animals; e.g., flea, door, broom, cart, ashes, tree, girl. 1 variant
The death of the little hen described with unusual words. Each act of mourning described by a neologism: the table untables itself. (Cf. X1506.) 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.