ATU 945 Luck and Intelligence

ATU 945

Luck and Intelligence

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

Suitor test: bringing dumb princess to speak. 4 variants
Skillful companions create woman: to whom does she belong? Woodcarver carves a doll, tailor clothes her, gardener gives her speech (or the like). (Answer sometimes given: her father, her mother, or her husband). 4 variants
Luck or intelligence? Dispute as to which is the more powerful. Man with intelligence remains poor (is brought into court). Saved by mere luck. 4 variants
Transformation: statue comes to life. 2 variants
Dumb princess is brought to speech by tale ending with a question to be solved. 2 variants
Creation of a person by cooperation of skillful men. 2 variants
Four brothers construct a woman. Whose is she? 2 variants

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.