ATU 1645B Dream of Marking the Treasure
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The tale in brief
A man dreams that he has found a treasure and, to know the spot again, relieves himself on it; he wakes to find he has fouled his bed.
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 537: Kes sita ära sööb, see raha omal saab · 4 records · strong parallel
RunoVerse’s note: These legends share only the dung: whoever eats it gets the money. There is no dream.
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. 305
Full references:
- Rausmaa 1982ff.: Rausmaa, Pirkko-Liisa (ed.): Suomalaiset kansansadut 1–6. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 1982–2000.
Motifs and related tale types
Motifs: The Dream of Marking the Treasure X31
Related types: ATU 1407A* Dream and Reality·ATU 778* Two Candles
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 Man Who Found Gold During His Sleep · Poggio Bracciolini · Poggio Bracciolini, The facetiae or Jocose Tales, volume 2 (Paris: Isidore Liseux, 1879), no. 130, pp. 14-15.
- The Hodja Dreams That He Had Found a Treasure · Attributed to Nasreddin Hodja · Albert Wesselski Der Hodscha Nasreddin, volume 1 (Weimar: Alexander Duncker Verlag, 1911), no. 314, p. 178.
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.