Task: give sheep good care but do not let it fatten. (Sheep fed but kept near wolf where it is afraid and does not fatten.) — Mythoi

Motif

Task: give sheep good care but do not let it fatten. (Sheep fed but kept near wolf where it is afraid and does not fatten.)

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

India*Thompson-Balys.
general *Chauvin VIII 181 No. 213

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Task: coming neither on nor off the road. (Comes in the rut or the ditch at side of the road.)Task: standing neither inside nor outside of gate. (Forefeet of horse inside, hind feet outside.)Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot (riding nor walking)Task: coming neither naked nor clad Task: coming neither barefoot nor shod. (Comes with one shoe on, one off; or in soleless shoes.)Task: coming neither with nor without a present (game). (Lets bird fly as the reaches it toward king.)Task: coming neither by day nor by night. (Comes at twilight.)Task: standing between summer and winter. (Stands between wagon and sleigh.)Task: coming neither with nor without a companion. (Comes with an animal.)Task: coming neither washed nor unwashed. (Comes partly washed.)Task: coming neither hungry nor satiated. (Eats a thin soup, a leaf, a single grain, or the like.)Task: coming laughing and crying at once. (Rubs eyes with a twig to simulate crying.)Task: bringing best friend, worst enemy, best servant, greatest pleasure-giver. (Brings dog, wife, ass, little son respectively.)Task: sweep the floor and do not sweep it Task: light fire but do not light it Task: making bed but do not make it