ATU 920C Shooting at the Father's Corpse as a Test of Paternity

ATU 920C

Shooting at the Father's Corpse as a Test of Paternity

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

Test of paternity: shooting at father's corpse. Youngest of supposed sons refuses to shoot and is judged the only genuine son of dead emperor. 1 variant
Compassionate youngest son. Kind to people or animals: rewarded. 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.