ATU 890 A Pound of Flesh

ATU 890

A Pound of Flesh

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

Pound of flesh. (Fleischpfand.) Literal pleading frees man from pound of flesh contract. Contract does not give the right to shed blood. Impossible, therefore, to carry out. 1 variant
Clever wife gets money from those who attempt to seduce her. Payment for keeping silence. 1 variant
Woman masks as lawyer (judge) and frees her husband. 1 variant
Disguise of woman in man's clothes. (Cf. K1825.) 1 variant
Bride purchased for her weight in gold. 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.