ATU 1525L Creditor Falsely Reported Insane when he Demands Money
Open in the ATU tale-type index →
The tale in brief
A man who owes money tells others beforehand that his creditor is out of his mind, so that when the creditor comes demanding payment, his demands are taken for raving.
Summary written for RunoVerse and checked against the Finnic texts linked on this page.
Runosong types
The SKVR or ERAB type index cites this tale type in its description of these song types:
- Ihmeellinen uni Wonderful dream · SKVR · 1 poem · and the types after it
RunoVerse’s note: The song tells another story: a traveller makes his host dream that they both turn into bears and are hunted, and meanwhile steals the host’s money.
Finnic sources cited in the catalogue
The entries of the catalogue’s list of literature and variants that concern Finnic tradition.
Finnish Rausmaa 1982ff. VI, No. 163
Full references:
- Rausmaa 1982ff.: Rausmaa, Pirkko-Liisa (ed.): Suomalaiset kansansadut 1–6. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 1982–2000.
Motifs and related tale types
Motifs: Creditor Falsely Reported Insane When He Demands Money K242
Combines with: ATU 1535 The Rich and the Poor Farmer
Sources
Tale-type number, title, classification, related types and the Finnic sources: Hans-Jörg Uther, The Types of International Folktales (FF Communications 284–286, Helsinki 2004). · Uther 2004, part II (FF Communications 285), free online ↗
Runosong types cited in the type indexes: the song-type indexes of SKVR and ERAB.
Motifs and combinations with other tale types: the Trilogy dataset, from Stith Thompson’s Motif-Index of Folk-Literature and the ATU catalogue.
The plot summary, the notes and the arrangement of this page are RunoVerse’s own.