166 motifs match “goat” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• Devil and God create animals. Wolf created as God's dog. The devil creates goats to destroy things. A63.4
• God with goat-feet. A131.5
• Goat (Heidrún) in Valhalla gives mead. A661.1.0.2
• Origin of "goat-heads" from curse of Ham. A1614.1.2
• Creation of goat. A1885
• Devil pulls off goats' tails: hence lack tails. (Cf. A2378.2.2.) A2216.2
• How goat got his beard. A2322.4
• How goat got his mane. A2322.4.1
• How goats got horns. A2326.1.5
• Why dog has no horns: they were stolen by deer (goat). A2326.2.2
• Why goat's and cat's members are as they are. A2365.2.0.1
• Why he-goat has shaggy legs. Braved the wolf, who tore his legs. A2371.2.8
• How goats lost tails. (Cf. A2216.2.) A2378.2.2
• Bad smell of goat. (Cf. A2232.5.) A2416.1
• Why goat lives with men. A2433.3.8
• Friendship between leopard and goat. A2493.8
• Friendship between goat and hog. A2493.22
• Enmity between leopard and goat. (Cf. A2281.) A2494.2.3
• Enmity between bears and goats. A2494.8.1
• Why goat lives with man. A2513.4
• Chimera. Combination of lion, dragon, and goat. Breathes fire. B14.1
• Goat with a gold and a silver horn. B15.3.2.2
• The goat Heidrun. B19.7
• Satyr. Combination of man and goat. B24
• Man with goat's head. (Cf. A1614.1.2.) B24.2
• Treasure-giving goat. B103.0.5
• Goat giving coins instead of milk. B103.3.1
• Treasure produced by goat's entrails. B119.2
• Prophetic goat. B141.1
• Magic goat. B184.5
• Magic fighting goat. B184.5.1
• Speaking goat. B211.1.2
• Helpful goat. B413
• Hero contests with demons, using fighting animals: cock, goat, bull, horse, wild bull, peacock. B524.1.11
• Goat as nurse for child. B535.0.3
• Goat feeds other animals from its body. Permits them to feed from it internally. B535.1
• Man carried on goat's horns. (Goat is transformed man.) B557.1
• Green she-goat. B731.1
• Giant goat. B871.1.4
• Tabu: tiger and lion after having killed a man not to touch certain animals: cow, buffalo, pig, deer, wild goat. C549.1
• Transformation: man to wild goat. D114.4
• Transformation: man to goat (he-goat, she-goat, kid etc.). D134
• Transformation: man to he-goat. D134.1
• Transformation: man to she-goat. D134.2
• Transformations supernatural being into a goat. D134.4
• Transformation: goat to person. D334
• Transformation: antelope to goat. D411.4.2
• Transformation: boar-pigs into he-goats. D412.3.3
• Transformation: sows into she-goats. D412.3.4
• Magic flight with the help of a he-goat. Speaking he-goat saves the girl promised to the devil. D674
• Magic object obtained as compensation for loss of entire herd – the spirit of the herd resides in the last goat's tail, which old woman keeps. D859.6
• Magic entrails of goat. D1015.3.2
• Magic goat tail. D1029.2.2
• Hide of sheep or goat as cure. (Cf. D1025.8.) D1500.1.33.4
• Liver of shining goat heals blindness of raja. D1505.14.1
• Speaking loin of goat meat. (Cf. D1032.) D1610.7
• Eaten goat bleats from eater's stomach. (Cf. D1032.) D1619.2.2
• Goat with inexhaustible milk. D1652.3.2
• Throne of goddess' idol is lifted only after goat has been sacrificed. (Cf. D1156.) D1654.17
• Goat appears to be two every time man aims. D2031.15
• Revenant as goat. E423.1.9
• Man reincarnated as goat. (Cf. D134.) E611.4
• Fighting animals seen in otherworld. Rams and she-goats or wild boars. F171.4
• Fairy in form of goat. F234.1.2
• Goats follow fairies. F241.4
• Fairy leaves goats as purchase price for girl he has carried off. F343.8
• Water-spirit as goat. F420.1.3.7
• Pan. Wood-spirit (demigod) part goat and part man. F442
• Dwarfs with goat feet. (Cf. B24, F442.) F451.2.2.3
• Marvelous sensitiveness: woman smells like a goat. F647.5
• Witch in form of goat. (Cf. G262.3.1.) G211.1.5
• Witch rides on goat. G241.1.2
• Witch's rosary consists of goat dung. G243.2.1
• Goat's tongue pierced with sharp needle; consequently, witch is sick with pierced tongue. G252.2
• Witch in form of she-goat kills men. G262.3.1
• Devil in form of goat. G303.3.3.1.6
• The devil has goat feet. G303.4.5.4
• Devil is betrayed by his goat hoofs. G303.4.5.4.1
• Devil speaks with voice of a he-goat. G303.4.7
• Devil drives six he-goats. G303.7.7
• Devil's mother rides a goat. G303.11.3.1
• Devil writes faults of man on goat skin. G303.24.1.2
• Troll drives two he-goats. G304.3.2.2
• Ogress in goat-form. G351.4
• Hero as giant's (ogre's) goatherd. G462.1
• Test of resourcefulness: carrying wolf, goat, and cabbage across stream. Man is to set across a stream, in a boat that will hold himself and only one other object, a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage. He must do this so that the wolf doesn't eat the goat, nor the goat the cabbage. Two solutions: (1) (a) take goat over, (b) take wolf over and goat back, (c) take cabbage over, (d) take goat over; (2) (a) take goat over, (b) take cabbage over and goat back, (c) take wolf over, (d) take goat over. H506.3
• Test: guessing nature of devil's horse. Answer: he-goat. H523.1
• Test: guessing nature of devil's cloth. Answer: goat-skin. H523.2
• Wise division of the goat (similar). H601.1
• How many stars in the heavens? As many as the hairs in the goatskin (on a donkey). H702.2.1
• Task: spinning wool still on goat's back. H1024.8
• Task: eating entire goat without leaving a scrap. H1141.4
• Task: selling a sheep (goat) and bringing it back along with the money. (Shears and sells wool; brings animal back.) H1152.1
• Quest for marvelous goat. H1331.5
• Fear test: bringing from a hill, seized by a demon, the fattest of goats. H1423.3
• Test of magic powers: telling sex of unborn goat. H1576.1
• One wild goat steps over another. They thus pass each other uninjured on a cliff. This shows advantage of peaceableness. J133.1
• Herdsman neglects his she-goats in favor of wild-goats. She-goats die; wild-goats run off. J345.1
• Bull refuses to fight goat. Bull being pursued by lion tries to go into cave. Goat refuses to let him in. Bull must go on, for with lion pursuing he has no time to fight goat. J371.1
• Lamb chooses her foster-mother, the she-goat. Owes more to her than to her own mother, who has deserted her. J391.1