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

859C: The Penniless Wooer: "House of my Father with one hundred fifty Lights and Goat Pen."

ATU > 850-999: REALISTIC TALES > 850-869: The Man Marries the Princess > 859C: The Penniless Wooer: "House of my Father with one hundred fifty Lights and Goat Pen."

Description

When the servant in bed so remarks, the master marries his daughter to him. Arrived at the hut, he explains that the lights are the stars whose beams enter through the cracks in the roof. One goat is tied to the tree. [K1917.4].

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