ATU 934H The Origin of Death

ATU 934H

The Origin of Death

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

Origin of death. 1 variant
Origin of death from falsified message. 1 variant
Origin of death: wrong messenger goes to God. 1 variant
Why men no longer know time of death. Custom changed when men began to repair fences with stalks when they knew they were to die the next day. 1 variant
Domestic beast as messenger. 1 variant
Horse as messenger. 1 variant
Death personified. 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.