ATU 2016 Wee Wee Woman (previously There Was a Wee Wee Woman)
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The tale in brief
A tale in which everything is tiny: a wee wee woman, her wee wee house and the wee wee things she has or finds, told in the same repeating words.
Summary written for RunoVerse from the tale type’s title alone: the linked poems have no text on this site.
Runosong types
The SKVR or ERAB type index cites this tale type in its description of these song types:
- Pikkuruikkuinen muija The tiny little woman · SKVR · 2 poems
Finnic sources cited in the catalogue
The entries of the catalogue’s list of literature and variants that concern Finnic tradition.
Finnish Aarne 1911, No. 2016**, SKS
Motifs and related tale types
Motifs: There Was a Wee Wee Woman Who Had a Wee Wee Cow, Etc Z39.2
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.
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