ATU 875B
The Clever Girl and the King
Aarne–Thompson–Uther tale-type index · Religious Tales · The full type description is not served here; the number and name are the classification facts.
Motifs the recorded variants carry
- Impossible tasks. 4 variants
- Task: construction from impossible kind of material. 4 variants
- Task: making a rope of chaff. 4 variants
- Task: sewing a shirt of stone. 4 variants
- Task: bringing well to king; countertask: sending his own well to accompany it. (Cf. H951.) 4 variants
- Task: milking a bull. 4 variants
- Absurdity of trying to convert king to Hinduism – like making cow of donkey or black dog into white. 4 variants
- Drying snow on the stove. 4 variants
- Candle put in the stove to dry: melts. 4 variants
- Countertasks. When a task is assigned, the hero agrees to perform it as soon as the assigner performs a certain other task. (Cf. H691.2.1, H1021.1.1, H1021.3, H1021.6.1, H1021.6.2, H1022.2.1, H1022.3, H1022.9, H1023.1.1, H1023.1.2, H1023.2.2.1, H1023.9.1, H1023.10.1, H1142.3, H1146.) 2 variants
- Task: making a bull bear a calf. Reductio ad absurdum: have a man prepare for childbirth. (Cf. H952.) 2 variants
- Absurdities concerning birth of animals, or men. (Cf. J1531.3.) 2 variants