ATU 821A Thief Rescued by the Devil

ATU 821A

Thief Rescued by the Devil

Aarne–Thompson–Uther tale-type index · Religious Tales · 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

Oath: "May the devil take me if.". Devil does. 1 variant
Devil as advocate of falsely condemned men. Carries off the judge. 1 variant
Hospitality to devil repaid. 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.