Fox as shepherd. A woman in search of a shepherd tries the voices of applicants. The wolf and the bear are rejected, the fox accepted

Motif

Fox as shepherd. A woman in search of a shepherd tries the voices of applicants. The wolf and the bear are rejected, the fox accepted.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Treacherous murder of enemy's children or charges. · view the constellation · filed as K934

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

general Type 37*.

Within the index

Filed under Treacherous murder of enemy's children or charges.

Filed beside it

Sham nurse kills enemy's children Trickster pollutes nest and brood of bird Trickster eats all of tiger's cubs but one. Counts that one many times and deceives tiger

Carried in tale types

Wolf in Sheep's Clothing Gains Admission to the Fold · ATU 123B1 recorded variant
The Fox as Nursemaid for the Mother Bear · ATU 371 recorded variant

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