Aarne-Thompson-Uther (ATU) - Types of Folktales

Folk Tale Group

ATU > 1000-1199: TALES OF THE STUPID OGRE (GIANT, DEVIL)

1000. Bargain not to become angry
1001. Cutting Wood
1002. Dissipation of the ogre's property
1003. Plowing
1004. Hogs in the mud; sheep in the air
1005. Building a bridge . . .
1006. Casting eyes
1008. Lighting the Road
1009. Guarding the Store-room Door
1010. Repairing the House
1011. Tearing up the Orchard or Vineyard
1012. Cleaning the child
1013. Bathing or Warming Grandmother/ Ogre's Wife Burned in his Own Oven
1014. Closing the Door Thight
1015. Whetting the Knife
1016. Cleaning the Horse
1029. The woman as cuckoo in the tree
1030. Man and ogre share the harvest
1031. Granary roof used as threshing flail
1035. Clearing out Manure
1045. Pulling the Lake Together
1046. Threat to Haul away the Warehouse
1048. Buying Wood
1049. The heavy axe
1050. Felling trees
1051. Springing with a Bent Tree
1052. A Contest in Carrying a Tree
1053. Shooting Wild Boars
1060. Squeezing Water from a Stone
1061. Biting the Stone
1062. A Contest in Throwing Stones
1063. Throwing contest with the golden club
1064. Making Fire by Stamping on Ground
1066. The Hanging Game
1070. Wrestling Contest: Looks Where to Throw him
1071. Wrestling Contest (with Old Grandfather)
1072. Race with Little Son
1073. Climbing Contest
1082. Carrying the Horse
1083. Duel with Long Poles or Cudgels
1084. Contest in shrieking or whistling
1085. Pushing a hole into a tree
1086. Jumping into the Ground
1087. Rowing contest
1088. Eating contest
1090. Mowing Contest
1091. Who Can Bring an Unheard-of Riding-Horse
1093. Contest in words
1095. Contest in Scratching Each Other with the Nails
1096. The tailor and the ogre in a sewing contest
1097. The Ice Mill
1115. Attempting to Kill the Hero in His Bed
1116. Attempt at burning
1117. The ogre's pitfall
1119. Ogres Kill Their Own Children
1122. Ogre's wife killed through other tricks
1130. Counting out Pay
1131. The hot porridge in the ogre's throat
1132. Flight of the Ogre with his Goods in the Bag
1133. Making the ogre strong (by castration)
1135. Eye-remedy
1137. Self Did It
1138. Gilding the Beard
1142. Hot Tin under the Tail of the Ogre's Horse
1145. The Ogre Afraid of what Rustles and Rattles
1146. Millstones
1147. Thunder the Rolling of his Brother's Wagon
1151. Big Shoes in Front of the Barn
1152. The Ogre Overawed by Displaying Objects
1153. Wages: as much as he can carry
1154. The Man Who Falls From the Tree and the Demons
1155. "A Peck of Grain for Each Stack."
1157. The gun as tobacco pipe
1158. The ogre wants to look through the gun barrel in the smithy
1159. The Ogre Wants to Learn to Play
1160. The ogre in the haunted castle. Beard caught fast
1161. The Bear Trainer and His Cat
1162. The Iron Man and the Ogre
1163. The Ogre Teaches the Smith how to Use Sand in Forging Iron
1164. The evil woman thrown into the pit
1165. The troll and the christening
1169. Changing Heads wih the Devil
1170. The Evil Woman in the Glass Case as Last Commodity
1171. A Rabbit in Each Net
1175. Straightening a Curly Hair
1178. The Devil Outriddled
1179. The ogre on the ship
1180. Catching Water in a Sieve
1181. Sticks from the Body
1182. The Level Bushel
1183. Washing Black Cloth White: Task for Devil
1184. The Last Leaf
1185. The First Crop
1186. With his whole heart
1188. "Come Tomorrow."
1191. Devil's Bridge
1199. The Lord's Prayer