Lying goat punished by being half-shorn. (Cf. Q263, K1151.) — Mythoi

Motif

Lying goat punished by being half-shorn. (Cf. Q263, K1151.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Humiliating punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q488.1

Cited in the index

general *Type 212
general *BP I 346ff.

Within the index

Filed under Cutting hair as punishment.

Filed beside it

Head shaved as punishment

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

The lying goat. A father sends his sons one after the other to pasture the goat. The goat always declares that he has had nothing to eat. The father angrily sends his sons from home and learns, when he himself tries to pasture the goat, that he has been deceived Lying (perjury) punished. (Cf. Q431.17, Q451.1.7, Q451.3.2, Q451.5.3, Q451.7.1, Q488.1, Q551.6.1, Q551.8.5, Q551.9.2, Q552.1.7, Q558.2, Q558.15, Q591.)

Carried in tale types

The Lying Goat · ATU 212 1 recorded variant

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