ATU 713 The Mother who Did not Bear Me but Nourished Me

ATU 713

The Mother who Did not Bear Me but Nourished Me

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

Land made magically fertile. (Cf. D1563, D2081, F349.4, F733.) 4 variants
Woman slandered as adulteress (prostitute). (Usually by unsuccessful suitor.) (Crescentia, Genoveva, Susanna.) 4 variants
Persecuted wife. 4 variants
Inexhaustible food. (Cf. D1030, and in general D1470–D1499.) 2 variants
Land made magically sterile. (Cf. D1563.) 2 variants
Hero is served at table by his unknown son: recognition of his wife follows. 2 variants
Infant indicates his unknown father by handing him an apple. 2 variants

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.