Aarne-Thompson-Uther (ATU) - Types of Folktales
785: Who Ate the Lamb's Heart ?
Variants
785A. The Goose with One Leg
Accused of eating the goose's leg, the thief maintains that it had only one leg, and cleverly enforces his point by showing geese standing on one leg. (Usually the master confounds the rascal by frightening the geese so that they use both legs.)…
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| Text title | ATU | Language | Author | Origin | Publication Date |
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| Bruder Lustig | 785,330 | German | Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm | Germany | 1812 |
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