ATU 0327B    ATU 0327B   

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ATU 0327B in Lexicon

- The Brothers and the Ogre

The Brothers and the Ogre (previously The Dwarf and the Giant). Seven (three, twelve, thirty) brothers come to an ogre’s house, where they are given night lodging. The ogre intends to cut off the brothers’s heads. In order to recognize his own daughters, the ogre gives them nightcaps (head-scarves). One brother (often the youngest, Thumbling) detects the plan, and all brothers put on the nightcaps of the ogre’s daughters (exchange their caps for the daughters’ head-scarves, change sleeping-places with the daughters). In the night, the ogre cuts off his own daughters’ heads by mistake [K1611]. The brothers escape. Cf. Types 327, 1119.

K1611

The oral tradition is widely influenced by Charles Perrault, Le Petit poucet.

This type is usually combined with episodes of one or more other types, esp. 327A, 328, 531, 1119, and also 301, 303A, 313, 314, 327C, and 1121.

327B

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