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

567: The Magic Bird Heart

ATU > 300-749: TALES OF MAGIC > 560-649: Magic Objects > 567: The Magic Bird Heart

Description

I. The Bird-heart. The hero eats the heart of the magic bird and thereby receives the power (a) of spitting gold or (b) of finding each day a coin under his pillow; or (c) he will become king. II. The Treacherous Wife. A woman (or his own wife)…

Variants

567A. The Magic Bird-Heart and the Seperated Brothers

I. Two Brothers Wander in the Forest. (a) They are driven forth when their stepmother claims they have insulted her [K2111], or (b) are driven forth for other reasons [5322.4]. (c) They are spared by the man charged with executing them. He kills an…

Examples

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Text title	ATU	Language	Author	Origin	Publication Date
De groente-ezel	567	Dutch	M.M. de Vries-Vogel	Germany	1940
De twee broers	567	Dutch	M.M. de Vries-Vogel	Germany	1940
Die zwei Brüder	567	German	Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm	Germany	1812
Der Krautesel	567	German	Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm	Germany	1812
I due fratelli	567	Italian	_	Germany	_
Hai anh em	567	Vietnamese	_	Germany	_
Rau lừa	567	Vietnamese	_	Germany	_
De to brødre	567	Danish	_	Germany	_
Salatæslet	567	Danish	_	Germany	_
Os dois irmãos	567	Portuguese	_	Germany	_
Los dos hermanos	567	Spanish	_	Germany	_
La lechuga prodigiosa	567	Spanish	_	Germany	_
Два браты	567	Belarusian	_	Germany	_
The two brothers	567	English	Margaret Hunt	Germany	_
Donkey cabbages	567	English	Margaret Hunt	Germany	_
Dwaj Bracia	567	Polish	_	Germany	_
Kapuściany Osioł	567	Polish	_	Germany	_
The Donkey Cabbage	567	English	Andrew Lang	Germany	1894
The Bird with the Golden Gizzard	567A	English	Parker Fillmore	Czech Republic & Slovakia	1919
Ptačí hlava a srdce	567	Czech	Božena Němcová	Czech Republic	1845

External Examples

Story	ATU	Origin	Source
Duck with golden eggs	567A	Russian	Internet Archive
Magic Bird	567	Greek	Internet Archive
Magic Bird-Heart	567A	Armenian	Internet Archive
The Cabbage-Donkey	567	German	Internet Archive
Two Brothers	567A	German	Internet Archive

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