The Boots of Buffalo Leather is a German fairy tale

Fairy tale

A fairy tale is a type of short story that typically features such folkloric characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments. However, only a small number of the stories refer to fairies...

 collected by the Brothers Grimm

Brothers Grimm

The Brothers Grimm , Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm , were German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, and authors who collected folklore and published several collections of it as Grimm's Fairy Tales, which became very popular...

, number 198.

It is Aarne-Thompson type 952, The King and the Soldier.

Synopsis

A soldier meets a huntsman in the woods; they are both lost. They find a robbers' den, and the soldier persuades the huntsman to go, and then for the robbers to feed him and give him drink. He drinks the robbers' health and magically freezes them. Then he finds his old comrades, and they capture the robbers. He then learns the huntsman is the king in disguise, and the king promises to supply his needs thereafter, but the soldier must never drink his health without permission.