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ATU 613 The Two Travelers

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The tale in brief

Two travellers, Truth and Falsehood: one puts out the other's eyes; the blinded man overhears secrets under a tree or a gallows and gets his sight back, and the false companion is blinded or killed.

Summary written for RunoVerse from Antti Aarne’s list of tale types of 1910 and 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.

Finnic and Finland-Swedish sources cited in the catalogue

The entries of the catalogue’s list of literature and variants that concern Finnic tradition.

Finnish Rausmaa 1982ff. I, No. 114

Finnish-Swedish Hackman 1917f. I, No. 117

Estonian Aarne 1918

Livonian Loorits 1926

Wepsian, Karelian Kecskeméti/Paunonen 1974

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Motifs and related tale types

Motifs: Animals Perform Offices of Church B253·Princess's Secret Sickness from Breaking Tabu C940.1·Magic Water Restores Sight D1505.5·Magic Sickness Because Girl Has Thrown Away Her Consecrated Wafer D2064.1·Treasure Magically Discovered D2101·Night Spent in Tree F1045·Dry Spring Restored by Removal of Certain Stone F933.2·Ogre's Secret Overheard from Tree G661.1·Task: Raising a Buried Treasure H1181·Task: Causing Dry Spring to Flow Again H1193·Princess Given to Man Who Can Heal Her H346·Tasks Performed by Means of Secrets Overheard from Tree H963·Unjust Umpire Decides a Religious Dispute K451.1·Eyes Exchanged for Food M225·Eyes Wagered N2.3.3·Secrets of Animals (Demons) Accidentally Overheard from Tree (Bridge) Hiding Place N451.1·Secret Remedy Overheard in Conversation of Animals (Witches) N452·Remedy for Lack of Water in Certain Place Overheard in Conversation of Animals (Demons) N452.1·Foolish Attempt of Second Man to Overhear Secrets (From Animals, Demons Etc) N471·N552.1.1·Wager That Falsehood Is Better Than Truth N61·Wager to Win or Lose According to Whether Jackal Howls or Ass Brays Before Game Is Finished N92·Mutilation: Putting Out Eyes S165·Princess Sick Because Toad Has Swallowed Her Consecrated Wafer V34.2

Combines with: ATU 1535 The Rich and the Poor Farmer·ATU 1641 Doctor Know-All·ATU 300 The Dragon-Slayer·ATU 314 Goldener (previously The Youth Transformed to a Horse)·ATU 326 The Youth Who Wanted to Learn What Fear Is·ATU 531 The Clever Horse (previously Ferdinand the True and Ferdinand the False)·ATU 554 The Grateful Animals·ATU 564 The Magic Providing Purse (previously The Magic Providing Purse and 'Out, Boy, out of the Sack!')·ATU 590 The Faithless Mother (previously The Prince and the Arm Bands)·ATU 812 The Devil's Riddle·ATU 954 The Forty Thieves

Example tales

English example tales of this type in the Trilogy folktale corpus; their texts can be read in the ATU tale-type index.

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 I (FF Communications 284), 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.