Stolen sheep dressed as baby in cradle, so that thief may escape detection. (Mak.)
Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Thief escapes detection. · view the constellation · filed as K406.2
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 9references
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.
- Irish mythCross (K521.1.3)
- SpanishBoggs FFC XC 144 No. 1735B*.
- general Whiting Speculum VII 552
- general Fb "lam" II 370a, "hundehvalp" IV 228b
- general *Baugh MPh XV 729
- general *Smyser JAFL XLVII 378
- general *Stroup JAFL XLVII 380, Southern Folklore Q. III 5f.
- general *Cosbey Speculum X 310ff.
- general Middle English: Second Shepherd's Play
Within the index
Filed under Stolen animal disguised as person so that thief may escape detection.
Filed beside it
Carried in tale types
- The Sheep in the Cradle (previously Mak and the Sheep) · ATU 1525M1 recorded variant