ATU 739* The Luck-bringing Animal (previously The Luckless Son and His Wizard Father)

ATU 739*

The Luck-bringing Animal (previously The Luckless Son and His Wizard Father)

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, and the motifs below are the doors onward.

Motifs the recorded variants carry

The luckless son and his envious father. Seeing a luck-bringing animal at his son's house, the wizard father orders it to be destroyed, but the grandchildren eat of its meat and become fortunate. 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.