ATU 5 Biting the Tree Root (previously Biting the Foot)

ATU 5

Biting the Tree Root (previously Biting the Foot)

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

Motifs the recorded variants carry

Biting the foot. Fox to bear, who is biting his foot: "You are biting the tree root." Bear lets loose. 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.