ATU 708 The Wonder Child

ATU 708

The Wonder Child

Aarne–Thompson–Uther tale-type index · Other Tales Of The Supernatural · The full type description is not served here; the number and name are the classification facts.

Motifs the recorded variants carry

Magic power of monster child. 2 variants
Monster as hero. 2 variants
Cast-off wife and child abandoned in forest. (Cf. S143.) 2 variants
Disenchantment of monster when prince promises to marry the monster's mother. The prince imagines falsely that the mother is also a monster. 1 variant
Disenchantment of monster when his mother acknowledges him as son. 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.