ATU 408 The Three Oranges

ATU 408

The Three Oranges

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

Transformation: man to bird. (Cf. B644.) 1 variant
Transformation: man to fish. 1 variant
Repeated transformation. Transformation into one form after another. 1 variant
Disenchantment from fruit (flower) by opening it. 1 variant
Ugly woman sees beautiful woman reflected in water and thinks it is herself. Prides herself on her beauty. 1 variant
True bride pushed into water by false. 1 variant
Reinstatement of true bride. 1 variant
Old woman's maledictions inform abandoned hero of his parentage and future. He has knocked her over (broken pots). 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.