ATU 1645 The Treasure at Home
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The tale in brief
A man dreams that he will find his fortune on a distant bridge; he goes there and waits, until a stranger laughs at him and tells his own dream of a treasure in a place that turns out to be the dreamer's own home, where the man goes back and digs it up. In many Estonian versions the bridge is in Tartu.
Summary written for RunoVerse and checked against the Finnic texts linked on this page.
Estonian treasure legends
Types of Estonian treasure legends that RunoVerse links to this tale type. A canonical reference rests on a catalogue number in the legend type’s name; strong parallels and experimental matches rest on a shared plot or shared motifs.
- P 151: Aare sillal (AT 1645) · 36 records · canonical reference
- P 106: Unes vm viisil juhatatud varandus: jututegelane ei lähe otsima/ei vii otsinguid lõpuni · 375 records · strong parallel
- P 141: Jutu tegelasele juhatatakse (unenäos) varandus, mis saadakse näidatud kohast kätte · 129 records · strong parallel
Finnic sources cited in the catalogue
The entries of the catalogue’s list of literature and variants that concern Finnic tradition.
Finnish Jauhiainen 1998, No. P321
Estonian Stern 1935, No. 147
Full references:
- Jauhiainen 1998: Jauhiainen, Marjatta: The Type and Motif Index of Finnish Belief Legends and Memorates. FF Communications 267. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1998.
Motifs and related tale types
Motifs: Dream of Treasure on the Bridge N531.1
Related types: ATU 834 The Poor Brother's Treasure
Example tales
English example tales of this type in the Trilogy folktale corpus; their texts can be read in the ATU tale-type index.
- A Cobbler in Someretshire · England · George Laurence Gomme, English Traditions and Foreign Customs (London: Elliot Stock, 1885), pp. 335-36.
- A Man of Baghdad · Persia · Jalalu-d'-Din Muhammad i Rumi, Masnavi i Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets (London: Trübner and Company, 1887), p. 322.
- Dreaming Tim Jarvis · Ireland · Thomas Crofton Croker, Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, part 2 (London: John Murray, 1828), pp. 221-33.
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 ↗
Treasure-legend links: RunoVerse’s matching of the Estonian treasure-legend types with the tale types.
Motifs and combinations with other tale types: the Trilogy dataset, from Stith Thompson’s Motif-Index of Folk-Literature and the ATU catalogue.
Example tales: the Trilogy folktale corpus; each tale’s own source is named beside it.
The plot summary, the notes and the arrangement of this page are RunoVerse’s own.