ATU 745 Hatch-penny
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The tale in brief
A man obtains a magic coin, from the Devil or by a forbidden rite, that comes back to his purse every time he spends it. The Estonian legends tell how such money was made, for example by carrying a coin to church at Easter under the left heel, and how it had to be spent: the shopkeeper must give change, or the coin stays in the shop.
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 557: Tagasituleva raha tegemine (ATU 745 Hatch-Penny) · 42 records · canonical reference
Finnic sources cited in the catalogue
The entries of the catalogue’s list of literature and variants that concern Finnic tradition.
Livonian Loorits 1926, No. 745
Full references:
- Loorits 1926: Loorits, Oskar: Livische Märchen- und Sagenvarianten. FF Communications 66. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1926.
Motifs and related tale types
Motifs: Magic Coin D1288·Self-Returning Magic Coin D1602.11·Money Cannot Be Kept from Where It Is Destined to Go N212
Related types: ATU 745A The Predestined Treasure
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.
The plot summary, the notes and the arrangement of this page are RunoVerse’s own.