The constellation
K1151 The lying goat. A father sends his sons one after the other to pasture the goat. The goat always declares that he has had nothing to eat. The father angrily sends his sons from home and learns, when he himself tries to pasture the goat, that he has been deceived
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- The Lying Goat · ATU 212
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- Dupe puts hand (paws) into cleft of tree (wedge, vise) · K1111 entry
- Bending the tree. Hero bends tree over but when he catches breath the tree shoots him to the sky · K1112 entry
- Abandonment on stretching tree. A man is induced to get into a tree which magically shoots upward · K1113 entry
- Fox rings the bell. The bear eats a horse which has a bell tied around its neck. The fox rings the bell and gets blamed · K1114 entry
- The oath on the iron. The trickster takes an oath by touching iron (a trap). The dupe imitates but hits the iron so hard that he gets caught · K1115 entry
- Dupe induced to sit on sharp stones (concealed as soft seat) · K1116 entry
- Ogre induced to sit on reversed harrow · K1117 entry
- Wolf (lion) approaches too near to horse: kicked in face · K1121 entry
- Dupe tries to dig up alleged treasure buried in ant hill: bitten by snake and killed · K1125 entry
- Peter receives the blows twice. Peter and Christ are sleeping in the same bed. The drunken host returns home and beats Peter, who thereupon changes places with Christ. The host then comes in to beat the other lodger and beats Peter again · K1132 entry