ATU 325 The Magician and his Pupil

ATU 325

The Magician and his Pupil

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

Motifs the recorded variants carry

Tabu: loosing bridle in selling man transformed to horse. Disenchantment follows. 8 variants
Magician's apprentice. 8 variants
Pupil surpasses magician. 8 variants
Protean sale: man sells youth in successive transformations. 4 variants
Transformation contest between master and pupil. 4 variants
Disenchantment by taking off bridle. Man transformed to horse (ass) thus released. 4 variants
Recognition of person transformed to animal. 4 variants
Recognition of transformed person among identical companions. Prearranged signals. 4 variants
Selling oneself and escaping. 4 variants

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.