μῦθοι 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

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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.

  • IrishCross, Baughman.
  • general De Vries FFC LXXIII 43ff., 157
Within the index

Filed under Task: selling an animal and keeping him.

Carried in tale types

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