ATU 675 The Lazy Boy

ATU 675

The Lazy Boy

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, and the motifs below are the doors onward.

Motifs the recorded variants carry

Castle produced by magic. 2 variants
Self-propelling wagon. (Cf. D1113.) 2 variants
Object labors automatically. 2 variants
Infant picks out his unknown father. 2 variants
Infant indicates his unknown father by handing him an apple. 2 variants
Test of paternity. Child tested to see if it is child of certain father. 2 variants
Lazy hero. 2 variants
Lowly successful hero invites king and humbles him. 2 variants
Exposure in boat. A person (usually woman or child) set adrift in a boat (chest, basket, cask). 2 variants
Abandonment on mountain. 2 variants
Conception from wish. (Cf. T548.1.) 2 variants
Fish returned to water: grateful. 1 variant
Wishes granted without limit. 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.