26 motifs match “goats”  ·  back to the chapters

• Devil and God create animals. Wolf created as God's dog. The devil creates goats to destroy things. A63.4
• Devil pulls off goats' tails: hence lack tails. (Cf. A2378.2.2.) A2216.2
• How goats got horns. A2326.1.5
• How goats lost tails. (Cf. A2216.2.) A2378.2.2
• Enmity between bears and goats. A2494.8.1
• Transformation: boar-pigs into he-goats. D412.3.3
• Transformation: sows into she-goats. D412.3.4
• Fighting animals seen in otherworld. Rams and she-goats or wild boars. F171.4
• Goats follow fairies. F241.4
• Fairy leaves goats as purchase price for girl he has carried off. F343.8
• Devil drives six he-goats. G303.7.7
• Troll drives two he-goats. G304.3.2.2
• How many stars in the heavens? As many as the hairs in the goatskin (on a donkey). H702.2.1
• Fear test: bringing from a hill, seized by a demon, the fattest of goats. H1423.3
• Herdsman neglects his she-goats in favor of wild-goats. She-goats die; wild-goats run off. J345.1
• Foolish wife believes goats' heads are human heads. J1762.9
• Deer belled and enclosed like goats jump fence and escape. J1904.2.2
• Simpleton drives goats into a well, because he thinks it would be cooler for them. J1959.1
• "Collect goats under tree." Fool piles up their carcasses. J2465.10
• Wait for the fat goat. Troll lets the first two goats pass on the bridge so that he may eat the biggest one. He is thrown in the water. K553.2
• Watching the goats: "Hit them if they wander." Trickster kills them. K1451
• Beard on she-goats do not make a male. U112
• Two stubborn goats meet each other on a bridge. Neither will step aside; both fall into water. W167.1
• Lies about goats. X1244
• Lie: goats heat oven. X1244.2
• The wormwood does not want to rock the sparrow. Final formula: the worms begin to gnaw the rods, the rods to beat the oxen, the oxen to drink the water, the water to quench the fire, the fire to burn the hunters, the hunters to shoot the wolves, the wolves to kill the goats, the goats to gnaw the wormwood, the wormwood to rock me – it rocked and rocked me to sleep. Z41.7