Wolf sold as a goat (sheep) — Mythoi

Motif

Wolf sold as a goat (sheep).

Deceptions. · Deceptive bargains. · Sale of worthless articles. · Sale of worthless animals. · view the constellation · filed as K132

Filed across the traditions

Missouri French Carrière.
general Types 1535, 1539
general *BP II 10
general Köhler-Bolte I 323

Within the index

Filed under Sale of worthless animals.

Filed beside it

Animal sold as messenger Wild animal sold as watch-dog Deceptive horse-sale Pseudo-magic animals sold Sale of dead buffalo by making him seem alive Alleged speaking animal sold Other worthless animals sold

Carried in tale types

The Revenge of the Cheated Man (previously The Youth Cheated in Selling Oxen) · ATU 1538 1 recorded variant
Cleverness and Gullibility · ATU 1539 1 recorded variant

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