ATU 4 Sick Animal Carries the Healthy One (previously Carrying the Sham-Sick Trickster)

ATU 4

Sick Animal Carries the Healthy One (previously Carrying the Sham-Sick Trickster)

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

Motifs the recorded variants carry

Trickster rides dupe horseback. Usually by feigning sickness he induces the dupe to carry him and then boasts that the dupe always acts as his horse. 1 variant
Disguise as sick man. 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.