He climbed on a horse that a man was riding by, and poked and pinched it until it galloped to the village.
[clarification needed] One day, his father left him in the fields with a horse while he went back home.
The hazelnut child jumped on the horse and pricked it until it ignored the robber and galloped home.
[2] In addition, in the late 19th century, editors of Jahresbericht über die Erscheinungen auf dem Gebiete der germanischen Philologie, in a review of Wlislocki's book, equated the tale to German tale Däumling ("Thumbling").
[3] In his 1987 study of folktales, folklorist D. L. Ashliman classified the tale as type AaTh 700, "Tom Thumb".