Task: pasturing witch's cattle (really her daughters). Grateful animals give help (cf. B571.) — Mythoi

Motif

Task: pasturing witch's cattle (really her daughters). Grateful animals give help (cf. B571.)

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Miscellaneous tasks. · view the constellation · filed as H1199.12.2

Filed across the traditions

Lithuanian Balys Index No. 557*.

Within the index

Filed under Task: unusual pasturing.

Filed beside it

Task: shepherd in God's service tending sheep and following where they go. On the way, he sees many wonderful things. (Cf. F171.0.1.)

Carried in tale types

The Shepherd in the Service of a Witch · ATU 556F* 1 recorded variant

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