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

206: Straw Threshed a second Time

ATU > 1-299: ANIMAL TALES > 200-219: Domestic Animals > 206: Straw Threshed a second Time

Description

The animals eating at night say they have good food because the straw has not been well threshed. The master hears and threshes it a second time. They grow hungry. (Animals' voices imitated in telling story.) Cf. Types 106, 2075.

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