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Thirteenth is an Italian fairy tale collected by Thomas Frederick Crane in Italian Popular Tales. A fairy tale is a story, either told to children or as if told to children, concerning the adventures of mythical characters such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, giants, and others. ...
It is Aarne-Thompson type 328, the boy steals the giant's treasures. Antti Amatus Aarne (1867 - 1925) was a Finnish folklorist, who developed the initial version of what became the Aarne-Thompson classification system of classifying folktales, first published in 1910. ...
Synopsis
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. A family had three sons, the thirteenth of which was known as Thirteenth. Their mother gave herb soup to whichever one came home first, and Thirteenth always got it. The king proclaimed that whoever brought him the ogre's coverlet would win a measure of gold. Thirteenth's envious brothers told him that Thirteenth had bragged of being able to do it. The youngest son is a stock character in fairy tales, where he features as the hero. ...
The Ogre from Tom Thumb illustrated by Gustave Doré An ogre (feminine: ogress) is a large and hideous humanoid monster. ...
Despite Thirteenth's protests, the king dispatched him. He sneaked in the home when only the ogress was there and hid under the bed. In the night, he pulled off the coverlet, distracting the ogre and ogress by meowing when they reacted, and carried it off.
When the king offered gold to whoever stole the ogre's horse, Thirteenth asked for a silk ladder and a bag of cakes. He used the ladder to scale the ogre's castle, and fed the horse cakes all the way back to the king. Then he tried to steal the ogre's bolster, but the bells on it gave him away. The ogre stuffed him in a barrel and tried to fatten him on raisins and figs, but when he told Thirteenth to stick a finger out, to tell how fat he was getting, Thirteenth stuck out a mouse's tail, and then a spindle, but the third time, he had to put out his finger.
The ogre arranged a feast, but when the ogress went to put Thirteenth in the oven, he asked her what the black thing inside was. When she bent to look, he pushed her in and escaped with the ogre's bolster and other treasure.
The king wanted the ogre himself. Thirteenth disguised himself as a monk and went to the ogre's castle. There, he told him that Thirteenth had killed his superior, and he intended to shut him up in the chest, but he did not know what he looked like. The ogre said that Thirteenth was as tall as he was, so Thirteenth asked him to get in the chest so he could see whether it was large enough. Then he fastened it and carried the ogre off. The king rewarded Thirteenth richly.
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See also The Grateful Beasts is a Hungarian fairy tale. ...
Boots and the Troll is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Asbjørnsen and Moe. ...
Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. ...
How the Dragon was Tricked is a Greek fairy tale collected by J. G. von Hahn in Griechtsche und Albanesische Marchen. ...
Dapplegrim is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Asbjørnsen and Moe. ...
Gretel tricks the witch Hansel and Gretel (German: Hänsel und Gretel) is a fairy tale of Germanic origin, collected by the Brothers Grimm. ...
External links - SurLaLune Fairy Tale site Thirteenth
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