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

1911: Cart as Legs

ATU > 1200-1999: ANECDOTES AND JOKES > 1875-1999: Tall Tales > 1911: Cart as Legs

Description

Small cart serves as back legs for crippled sow. Pigs have also these carts. (Similar stories about other animals.) [X1202.1].

Variants

1911A. Horse's New Backbone

No examples in our database yet

External Examples

StoryATUOriginAuthorYearSource
Amasa Abbey's Horse 1911A US New England Internet Archive
Basket-maker's Donkey 1911A British Internet Archive
Horse's Last Drunk 1911A Irish Internet Archive
Wool and Withies 1911A British Internet Archive

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