The Lucky Shot. A gun goes off by accident. It kills a grouse, which falls and kills a hare (falls into some branches and kills a bear, etc.) [X1124.3].
Mittens Chase Deer. (Including the previous Type 1920G*.) A hunter’s best dog dies. He has its skin made into a pair of mittens (piece of clothing, flask for drink) which he wears while hunting. Seeing some game (hare), he exclaims, “I wish I had my…
Horse Repaired. A horse breaks into two pieces. (The owner repairs it temporarily with willow wands.) The owner rides to his destination on the front part of the horse. When he comes back, he sews the two parts back together.
The Long Hunt. A hunting dog following a scent refuses to go back. After a year (some months), the hunter finds its skeleton with the skeleton of the hunted animal in its mouth [X1215.9]. Cf. Type 1920F*.
Snakebite Causes Object to Swell. A snake (bee, hornet, dog) bites (stings) an object (tree, yoke, walking stick, axle of a wagon, stirrup) which swells to a monstrous size [X1205, X1205.1].
The Split Dog. While chasing a hare, a hunting dog runs through a fence and splits himself into two parts. The hunter puts him back together, but with one pair of legs pointing upward. The dog recovers and learns to run on two legs. When he gets…
Jumping Back to the Starting Place (previously Jumper over Water Turns Around Midway of Jump and Returns). A man tries to leap over water. Halfway across, he changes his mind, and returns to his starting place [X1741.2]. Cf. Type 1880.
Submarine Otherworld. A sailor goes across the ocean to see where it ends, where the tide comes from, and where the tide goes when it is out. On his journey he experiences various adventures (under water).
Man Swallowed by Fish. A huge fish (whale, several fishes) overturns a ship and swallows the crew (a sailor). When later the fish is caught and its stomach is opened, all the men are still sitting inside and can be rescued [F911.6, F913, X1723.1].…
Frozen Words (Music) Thaw. A man tells (in jest) about a place (town) where it was so cold that all the words (songs) froze in extreme cold as soon as they were spoken. When spring came the words thawed and could be heard again [X1623.2.1]. Cf. Type…
Descent from Sky on Rope of Sand (Chaff). (Including the previous Type 1889K.) A man who is in the sky (on the moon, in another high place) wants to return to the earth. He makes a rope out of flax (leather, sand [H1021.1], chaff, dough, soap,…
Tree Grows Out of Horse and Gives Rider Shade. The broken backbone of a horse is repaired by a smith who pieces it together with a laurel sapling. The sapling grows into a tree which provides shade for the rider [X1130.2.1]. Cf. Types 1911A, 1961.
Fruit Tree Grows from Head of Deer. A hunter uses a cherry pit to shoot a deer. A year or two later he recognizes the animal by the cherry tree that has grown between its antlers. This time he kills it [X1130.2].
Hunter Turns Animal Inside Out. A hunter thrusts his fist into the mouth of an animal (wolf, bear) and reaches his arm in up to his shoulder. He seizes the animal’s tail (intestines) and turns it inside-out [X1124.2].
Shooting Off the Leader’s Tail. A blind bear (wild sow) follows after a young bear (young boar) by holding its tail in his mouth. A hunter separates them by shooting a bullet through the young bear’s tail. He leads the blind bear home by holding on…
Münchhausen Tales. This miscellaneous type comprises various tales dealing with exaggerations and lies [X900ff.]. Cf. i.a. Types 513A, 654, 1880, 1881, 1889A–P, 1890, 1894, 1896, 1910, and 1930.
Cattle Merchant’s Voyage Across the Sea. A man floats across the sea on a raft. One after another, he brings a herd of cattle across to the opposite shore. He himself rides along with the last animal, holding on to its tail.
A Man Drinks from his Own Skull. A man takes his skull off and drinks from it (carries water in it, uses it to break ice). The skull falls into the water and a duck builds her nest inside it.
Man Caught in Log (Cleft Tree) Goes Home to Get Axe. A man is caught in a tree trunk (hole in a tree). He goes home and gets an axe to cut himself free. Cf. Type 1882.
The Man who Fell Out of a Balloon. A man is carried to heaven in a balloon (by a bird [X1258.1] (cf. Type 1881), in an airplane). He tries to climb back down to earth on a rope (of sand, flax, chaff [X1757, cf. Type 1889E), but the rope is too short…
Parrots Fly Away with Tree. A man is annoyed by loud birds (parrots, crows) sitting in a tree. He climbs the tree and smears syrup on the branches. When the birds alight there again, he frightens them (with fireworks). The birds fly up carrying the…
The Man Carried through the Air by Geese. A man (farmer, hunter) catches geese (ducks, cranes) by tying bread (bacon, worms) to a string. The geese come, eat the bread, and become tied one after another to the string. (A man catches geese by giving…
Riding on the Cannonball (previously The Boy has a Hat of Butter). A man (soldier) who wants to enter a fortress jumps onto a cannonball that has been shot from a cannon. Half way there, he reconsiders his plan and decides not to go after all. He…