ATU 715A The Wonderful Rooster
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The tale in brief
A rooster is thrown in among the horses and the oxen, but the animals it has brought along, a bear and a wolf, help it; at last the king swallows it, and it crows inside his belly.
Summary written for RunoVerse from Antti Aarne’s list of tale types of 1910 and 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:
- Kukko lauloi: kuningas kuolee The rooster sang: the king dies · SKVR · 2 poems
RunoVerse’s note: Two texts of four verses each, in which a rooster sings that the king will die tomorrow and a peasant will get the castle: they echo the tale but do not tell it.
Possibly related: the songs of these types match a passage of this tale, often words a character says or sings (as judged by a language model).
- Kukko kiekuu: anna mylly! The rooster crows: give the mill! · SKVR · 1 poem
Motifs and related tale types
Motifs: Treasure-Dropping Animals B103.1
Combines with: ATU 219E* The Old Man Has a Rooster, the Old Woman a Hen·ATU 565 The Magic Mill·ATU 715 Demi-cock
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 ↗
Runosong types cited in the type indexes: the song-type indexes of SKVR and ERAB.
Possibly related runosong types: a reading of the song types by a language model (Claude Opus 5.5, 2 November 2026); only links it rated high or medium in confidence are shown.
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.