ATU 709A The Sister of Nine Brothers (previously The Stork's Daughter)

ATU 709A

The Sister of Nine Brothers (previously The Stork's Daughter)

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

Detection by strewing ashes (sand). Trespasser (lover, mistress, ghost, fairy, etc.) leaves footprints in the ashes. 1 variant
Animal aids abandoned child(ren). (Cf. B535.) 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.