ATU 897 The Orphan Girl and her Cruel Sisters-in-Law

ATU 897

The Orphan Girl and her Cruel Sisters-in-Law

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

Sisters-in-law impose tasks. 2 variants
Task: carrying water in a sieve. 2 variants
Task: carrying water in leaky vessel; frog sits in hole. 2 variants
Task: sorting grains; performed by helpful birds. 2 variants
Quest for tiger's milk. 2 variants
Serpent acts as a rope to collect wood for man. 1 variant
Task: bringing bundle of faggots without rope to tie them. Helpful snake coils himself about them. 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.