ATU 894 The Ghoulish Schoolmaster and the Stone of Pity

ATU 894

The Ghoulish Schoolmaster and the Stone of Pity

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

Ogre schoolmaster. Girl sees schoolmaster eat human flesh. Refuses to tell him what she saw. He persecutes her. 2 variants
Recognition by overheard conversation with stone. 2 variants
Blood smeared on innocent person brings accusation of murder. 2 variants
Seven years, seven months, seven days. 2 variants
False bride finishes true bride's task and supplants her. The true bride must perform a certain task to win her husband and, being exhausted, commits the task to a slave. 1 variant
Treacherous slave-girl. 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.