ATU 726 The Three Old Men (previously The Oldest on the Farm)

ATU 726

The Three Old Men (previously The Oldest on the Farm)

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

Sending to the older. Old person refers inquirer to his father, who refers to his father, and so on for several generations. 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.