ATU 665 The Man who Flew like a Bird and Swam like a Fish

ATU 665

The Man who Flew like a Bird and Swam like a Fish

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

Grateful animals. 4 variants
Resuscitation by animals. 4 variants
Transformation to reach difficult place. 4 variants
Magic sword. 4 variants
Magic wishing-ring. (Cf. D1076.) 4 variants
The grateful dead. 4 variants
Identification by feather taken from hero when he was transformed to bird. 4 variants
Impostors kill hero. 4 variants
Husband (lover) arrives home just as wife (mistress) is to marry another. 4 variants
Spendthrift knight. Divides his last penny. He is later helped by the grateful person. 4 variants
Transformation: man to hare (rabbit). 1 variant
Transformation: man to bird. (Cf. B644.) 1 variant
Transformation: man to fish. 1 variant
Transformation and disenchantment at will. 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.