Task: selling a sheep (goat) and bringing it back along with the money. (Shears and sells wool; brings animal back.) — Mythoi

Motif

Task: selling a sheep (goat) and bringing it back along with the money. (Shears and sells wool; brings animal back.)

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Tasks: stealing, capturing, or slaying. · view the constellation · filed as H1152.1

Filed across the traditions

Irish Cross, Baughman.
general De Vries FFC LXXIII 43ff., 157

Within the index

Filed under Task: selling an animal and keeping him.

Carried in tale types

The Clever Farmgirl [J1111 · ATU 875 1188 recorded variants

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