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

225: The Tortoise That Wanted to Fly

ATU > 1-299: ANIMAL TALES > 220-299: Other Animals and Objects > 225: The Tortoise That Wanted to Fly

Description

Lets him fall to the earth

Variants

225A. Tortoise Lets self be Carried by Eagle

Dropped and eaten.

Examples

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Text title	ATU	Language	Author	Origin	Publication Date
Y crwban a’r eryr	225A	Welsh	Gan Glan Alun	Greece	1887
Χελώνη καὶ ἀετός	225A	Ancient Greek	Αἴσωπος	Greece	_
The Tortoise and the Eagle	225A	English	George Fyler Townsend	Greece	1867
De schildpad en de arend	225A	Dutch	_	Greece	_
Yn Tortoise as yn Urley	225A	Manx	Edward Faragher	Greece	1901
The Fate Of the Turtle	225A	English	Andrew Lang	India	1907

External Examples

Story	ATU	Origin	Author	Year	Source
Angel Wedding	225A	Arab			Internet Archive
The Talkative Tortoise	225A	Indian			Internet Archive