Seven-league boots

element in folklore
Thing narrative_motif Q2282444
Seven-league boots
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Summary

Seven-league boots is a narrative motif[1]. It draws 1,491 Wikipedia views per month (narrative_motif category, ranking #15 of 20).[2]

Key Facts

  • Seven-league boots's instance of is recorded as narrative motif[3].
  • Seven-league boots's instance of is recorded as folklore motif[4].
  • Seven-league boots's depicts is recorded as magic[5].
  • Seven-league boots's depicts is recorded as function[6].
  • Seven-league boots's Commons category is recorded as Seven-league boots[7].
  • Seven-league boots's catalog code is recorded as D1521.1.[8].
  • Seven-league boots's facet of is recorded as miraculous speed from magic object[9].
  • Seven-league boots's described by source is recorded as Motif-Index of Folk-Literature[10].
  • Seven-league boots's described by source is recorded as Bidrag til en Ordbog over Jyske Almuesmål[11].
  • Seven-league boots's indigenous to is recorded as Bretons[12].
  • Seven-league boots's indigenous to is recorded as French Canadians[13].
  • Seven-league boots's indigenous to is recorded as English people[14].
  • Seven-league boots's indigenous to is recorded as Indians[15].
  • Seven-league boots's indigenous to is recorded as Chinese people[16].
  • Seven-league boots's indigenous to is recorded as Filipinos[17].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Genre(s): fairy tale[18]

  • Community tags: fairy tale[19]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 76085c94-ef1a-4d26-922d-0cb2ee157ff1[20]

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include narrative motif[3] and folklore motif[4].

Why It Matters

Seven-league boots draws 1,491 Wikipedia views per month (narrative_motif category, ranking #15 of 20).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] It is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Motif-Index of Folk-Literature: Volume 1: A–C. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. sites.ualberta.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. sites.ualberta.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. sites.ualberta.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. sites.ualberta.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. sites.ualberta.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. sites.ualberta.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · HedgeHog · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Facet of → miraculous speed from magic object
    Described by source → Motif-Index of Folk-Literature, Bidrag til en Ordbog over Jyske Almuesmål
    Instance of → narrative motif, folklore motif
    Depicts → magic, function
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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