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The A-T Index covers only the Indo-European folktales.

Yet, thanks to recurring motifs across cultures, most of the tales from other
lands that Ive included herre fit smoothly into the index. The Maiden Without Hands appears in Africa, Cinderella in China, and
so forth. Below is, not a complete listing of tales, but many popular ones, along with the ones relevant to this study.
TYPES

Animal Tales
AT 34 The Wolf Dives into the Water for Reflected Cheese
AT 38 Claw in Split Tree
AT 155 The Ungrateful Serpent Returned to Captivity
AT 157 Learning to Fear Men
AT 175 The Tarbaby and the Rabbit
Ordinary Folktales
AT 300 The Dragon Slayer
AT 301 A Quest for a Vanished Princess
AT 310 The Maiden in the Tower
AT 311 How the Devil Married Three Sisters
AT 312 Bluebeard
AT 313 The Girl as Helper in the Hero's Flight
AT 326 The Youth Who Wanted to Learn What Fear Is
AT 327 The Children and the Ogre
AT 327A Hansel and Gretel
AT 330 The Smith Outwits the Devil
AT 330D Bonhomme Misere
AT 332 Godfather Death
AT 332B Death and Luck
AT 333 Red Riding Hood
AT 361 Bearskin
AT 403 The Black and White Bride
AT 410 Sleeping Beauty
AT 425A Cupid and Psyche
AT 425C Beauty and the Beast
AT 432 The Prince as Bird
AT 440 The Frog Prince
AT 451: The Brothers Who Were Turned Into Birds
AT 462 The Outcast Queens and the Ogress Queen
AT 470 Friends in Life and Death
AT 476 Midwife (or Godparent) for the Elves
AT 480 The Spinning-Women by the Spring
AT 500 The Name of the Helper
AT 505 The Grateful Dead
AT 510 Cinderella
AT 510A Cinderella
AT 510B The Dress of Gold, of Silver, and of Stars
AT 530 The Princess on the Glass Mountain
AT 531 Ferdinand the True and Ferdinand the False
Robe 545G [The Mouse as Helper]
AT 551 The Sons on a Quest for a Wonderful Remedy for Their Father
AT 138
AT 554 The Grateful Animals
AT 555 The Fisher and His Wife
Robe 559 Dung Beetle
AT 566 The Three Magic Objects and the Wonderful Fruits
AT 6 12 The Three Snake-Leaves
AT 613 The Two Travelers

Hansen 613 [Hero Overhears Secrets and Cures Illness]


AT 621 The Louse Skin
AT 653A The Rarest Thing in the World
AT 700 Tom Thumb
AT 706 The Maiden without Hands
AT 707 The Three Golden Sons
AT 709 Snow White
Hansen 748H [Witch Wife Who Visits Cemetery Changes Spying Husband into Dog]
AT 750F The Old Man's Blessing
AT 752C* The Discourteous Sower
AT 756 The Three Green Twigs
AT 756B The Devil's Contract
AT 759 God's Justice Vindicated
AT 780 The Flower of Lily-Lo
AT 841 One Beggar Trusts God, the Other the King
AT 851 The Princess Who Cannot Solve the Riddle
AT 875 Clever Peasant Girl Who Solves the Kings Riddles
AT 879 The Basil Maiden
AT 883A The Innocent Slandered Maiden
AT 891 The Man Who Deserts His Wife and Sets Her the Task of Bearing Him a Child
AT 910B The Servant's Good Counsels
AT 923 Love Like Salt
Hansen 930B [Noble Daughter and Coal Seller's Son]
AT 945 Luck and Intelligence
AT 955 The Robber Bridegroom
AT 981 Wisdom of Hidden Old Man Saves Kingdom
AT 1004 Hogs in the Mud
Jokes and Anecdotes
Robe 1341E [The Money in the Coffin]
AT 1354 Death for the Old Couple
AT 1364 The Blood-Brother's Wife
AT 1380 The Faithless Wife
AT 1381B The Sausage Rain
AT 1415 Lucky Hans
AT 1418 The Equivocal Oath
AT 1529 Thief Claims to Have Been Transformed into a Horse
AT 1530 Holding Up the Rock
AT 1536B The Three Hunchback Brothers Drowned
AT 1540 The Student from Paradise
Hansen 1545** [The Reluctant Hosts]
AT 1626 Dream Bread
AT 1641 Doctor Know-All
AT 1654 The Robbers in the Death Chamber
Hansen 1704** [The Fool as Babysitter]
AT 1737 The Parson in the Sack to Heaven
AT 1741 A woman convinces a guest that her husband (or employer) wants to cut off his ears
AT 1792 The Stingy Parson and the Slaughtered Pig
Boggs 1940E [The Widow's Dog Named World]
SELECTED MOTIFS
Mythological Motifs
A673 Hound of hell
A1010 Deluge
A1030 World-fire
A1650.1 The various children of Eve
Hiogi.i
Animals
B401 Helpful horse

B411 Helpful cow


B600.2 Animal husband provides characteristic animal food
B635.1 The Bear's Son
Tabu
C12Devil invoked appears unexpectedly
Magic
D1234 Magic guitar[121
D 1505.8.1 Blood from Christ's wounds restores sight 17 11
The Dead
E30 Resuscitation by arrangement of members 15 1]
E235 Return from dead to punish indignities to corpse [851
E734.1 Soul in form of butterfly [io6j
E751.1 Souls weighed at judgment Day 15 61
Marvels
F81.1 Orpheus
F251.4 Underworld people from children which Eve hid from God 1581
F841 Extraordinary boat 15 11
Ogres
G211 Witch in animal form [9, 8o, 841
G211.1.2 Witch in form of horse 130, Cf. 101
G266 Witches steal [91
G271.2.2 Witch exorcised by holy water
G271.4.5 Breaking spell by beating the person or object bewitched [91
Tests
H7I.I Star on forehead as a sign of royalty
H121 Identification by cup
H602.1.1 Symbolic meaning of numbers one to twelve (or other number)
H1091.1 Task: sorting grains: performed by helpful ants
H1091.2 Task: sorting grains: performed by helpful birds
H1125 Task: traveling until iron shoes are worn out
H1226.4 Pursuit of rolling ball of yarn leads to quest
The Wise and the Foolish
J1185.1 Sheherezade
J1545.4 Exiled wifes dearest possession
J1758 Tiger mistaken for domestic animal
J2461.1 Literal following of instructions about actions
Deceptions
K841 Substitute for execution obtained by trickery
Reversal of fortune
L13 Compassionate youngest son
Ordaining the Future
M21 King Lear judgment
Chance and Fate
N452 Secret remedy overheard in conversation of animals
N512 Treasure in underground chamber 15, 5 11
N531 Treasure discovered through dream 151
N813 Helpful genie 151

Rewards and Punishments


Q2 Kind and unkind
Unnatural Cruelty
S165 Mutilation: putting out eyes [121
S224 Child promised to Devil for acting as godfather [231
S241 Child unwittingly promised: "first thing you meet" 1541
Traits of Character
W 151.9 Greedy animal gets head stuck in food jar

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