ATU 650A
Strong John
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
- Strong hero practices uprooting trees. (Cf. F621.) 15552 variants
- Strong man evades death. Vain attempts to kill him. 15552 variants
- Strong man sent for wild horses: brings them back. 15552 variants
- Strong hero suckled by animal. 7776 variants
- Strong hero's long nursing. 7776 variants
- Strong hero sent from home because of enormous appetite. 7776 variants
- Strong man drives anvil into ground. 7776 variants
- Strong hero attacked with millstone puts it on as collar. Sent to dig a well. Master throws the millstone on him. 7776 variants
- Strong hero asks that chickens stop scratching. When his master throws millstone on him he complains that chickens are scratching dirt on him. 7776 variants
- Journey to lower world. 5184 variants
- Strong man sent to devil's mill: drives devils to master's house. 5184 variants
- Quest for devils in hell; hero brings them back with him. 5184 variants
- Plowing the field: horse and harness destroyed. The youth is told to come home from plowing when the dog does. He beats the dog so that it runs home; then he destroys the horse and harness and goes home. 5184 variants
- Clearing land: axe broken. 5184 variants
- Threshing grain: granary roof used as threshing flail. 5184 variants
- Men with birds' beaks. 3888 variants
- Giant cane for strong man. Cane holds fifty cattle. 3888 variants
- Strong man throws trees on roof and breaks it. 3888 variants
- Tasks assigned in order to get rid of hero. 3888 variants
- Strong man makes labor contract. 2592 variants
- Strong man's labor contract: blow at end of year. Blow sends his master to sky. 2592 variants
- Strong man's labor contract: all grain he can carry. 2592 variants
- Labor contract: as much money as my companion (strong man) can carry. 2592 variants
- Strong man's labor contract: anger bargain. First to become angry shall receive blow. 2592 variants
- Strong man serves ogre as punishment for stealing food. 2592 variants
- Human offspring from marriage to animal. 1728 variants
- Strong man son of bear who has stolen his mother. 1728 variants
- Strong hero born from egg. 1728 variants
- Strong hero born from noodle. 1728 variants
- Strong hero struck by smith from iron. 1728 variants
- Strong hero son of man and troll-woman. Relations take place in dream. 1728 variants
- Strong hero son of woman of sea. 1728 variants
- Strong hero son of wood-spirit. 1728 variants
- Conception through dream. 1728 variants