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

• Cattle and sheep of the sun. 350 of each (= days and nights of the lunar year). A732.1
• Creation of sheep. A1884
• First sheep in Ireland. A1884.0.1
• Creation of mountain sheep. A1884.1
• Why sheep walk with bowed heads: they have remained so after having bowed to God. A2221.9
• Sheep helpful to the Lord: get wool. A2221.10
• Wool on his forehead awarded sheep in lawsuit. He is given the privilege of keeping it when the rest of his body is shorn. (Cf. A2322.5.) A2255.1
• Shepherd transformed to bird still calls sheep: explanation of bird cries. Usually told of hoopoe and bittern. (Cf. A1952, A1965.2, A2275.3, A2425, A2426.2.3, A2426.2.4.) A2261.1
• Why sheep may keep wool which grows on his forehead. (Cf. A2255.1.) A2322.5
• How sheep got horns. A2326.1.3
• Why mountain-sheep's horns are close together. A2326.3.5
• Why sheep's tongue is black. A2344.3.1
• Why sheep has thin legs. (Cf. A2231.7.2.) A2371.2.1
• Why sheep do not speak. Curse of Virgin Mary. (Cf. A2231). A2422.2
• Cause of sheep's walk. A2441.1.12
• Enmity between leopard and sheep. A2494.2.6
• Why sheep is a good runner. A2555.1
• Hybrid monster: calf-sheep. B14.3
• Nine-horned sheep. B15.3.1.2
• Destructive sheep. B16.1.6
• Sheep with fiery collar. B19.4.3
• Treasure-producing part of sheep. B114
• Treasure-producing sheepskin. B114.1
• Dog that is hound by night and sheep by day. B182.1.4
• Magic sheep. B184.6
• Speaking sheep. B211.1.1
• Wolf returns sheep stolen from saint. B256.11
• Alliance of sheep and dog. B267.2
• Man hangs wolf who has eaten sheep left in his charge. B275.1.3.1
• Wolves and wild pigs condemned to death in lion's court for killing and eating sheep. B275.1.3.2
• Helpful sheep. B412
• Sheep and oxen protect exposed child. B535.0.10
• Lion kills wolf who has killed mistress' sheep. B591.1
• Venomous sheep destroy enemy. B776.1
• Sheep sleeps if anyone ties shoe to its ear. B782
• Giant sheep. B871.1.3
• Transformation: man to sheep. D135
• Animal that is hound by day, sheep by night. D412.5.4
• Transformation: sheep to grasshoppers. D412.7
• Sheep by day; dog by night. D621.5
• Magic sheepskin. D1025.8
• Divination by shoulder-bone of sheep. (Cf. D1013.) D1311.10.1
• Magic sheepskin, shaken inside and outside shed, showers gold and silver. (Cf. D1225.8.) D1469.11
• Magic sheepskin supplies food. (Cf. D1025.8.) D1472.1.29
• Hide of sheep or goat as cure. (Cf. D1025.8.) D1500.1.33.4
• Inexhaustible sheep. D1652.1.9.2
• Sheep with inexhaustible wool. (Cf. B184.6, B412.) D1652.14
• Magic sight by looking at shoulder-bone of sheep. D1821.3.8
• Sheep or cattle disappear every night. D2087.3
• Bones wrapped in sheepskin inscribed with holy name revive. E174
• Ghosts visible only to sheep. E421.1.4
• Ghost laid and confined in sheepfold. E437.7
• White sheep carries to upper world, black to lower. F67
• Souls redeemed from hell in shape of sheep. F81.6
• Fairy in form of sheep. F234.1.11
• Fairies have sheep. F241.7
• Fairies threaten watcher of sheep. F361.11
• Household spirit herds sheep, has great trouble coralling the lambs (rabbits). (Cf. J1757.) F488.1
• Giant steals from man (fish, sheep, sword). F531.6.7.2.1
• Island inhabited only be sheep. F743.2
• Well rises for pious man's sheep. F933.1.3.2
• At certain time sheep thrown into well become crimson. F933.3
• Black sheep turn white. (Cf. H1023.6.) F985.1
• Sheep never harmed by wild beasts. F989.5
• Sheep kill wolves. F989.5.1
• Witch in form of sheep. G211.1.4
• The devil cannot change into a sheep. G303.3.6.3.1
• Devil stands in church door and writes down names of his own people on a sheepskin. G303.24.1.4
• Killing of ogre's cattle, sheep, etc. brings on ogre's anger. G614
• Well rises for sheep only for rightful owner. H251.3.9.2
• Test of wife's ability to keep secret: the buried sheep's head. Husband tells her that he is burying head of murdered man. She is to keep secret. She tells. When head is dug up it is sheep's head. H472.1
• Task: weaving mantle from wool of a single sheep. H1022.4.2
• Task: give sheep good care but do not let it fatten. (Sheep fed but kept near wolf where it is afraid and does not fatten.) H1072
• Task: shearing flock of sheep in one day. H1106
• Task: carrying hundreds of sheep across stream one at a time. H1111
• Task: selling a sheep (goat) and bringing it back along with the money. (Shears and sells wool; brings animal back.) H1152.1
• Task: shepherd in God's service tending sheep and following where they go. On the way, he sees many wonderful things. (Cf. F171.0.1.) H1199.12.1
• Quest for sheep that is a hound by night and a sheep by day. H1331.9
• Sheep and ignorant shearer. Had rather die than suffer longer from him. J229.2
• Wolf does not mind the dust. Told that dust from flock of sheep will annoy him; he finds it useful. J352.1
• Good shepherd shears his sheep; does not skin them. Emperor thus replies to suggestion of a new tax to be laid on the people. J531
• Two sheep kill a fox who has licked up the blood they have spilled in a fight. J624.1
• Sheep-dogs stop quarreling to hunt wolf who has raided the flock. J624.2
• Eagle warns shepherds that wolf is eating sheep. Crow rebukes eagle for thus imperiling his own food supply. J715.1
• Three unlawful acts in killing one sheep: two lambs were inside. J1169.9
• Dividing two sheep and a ram: trickster to divide with two friends. You two take one sheep; the ram and I will take the other. J1241.1
• Price of consecration. Bishop is paid 100 ova (eggs) instead of 100 oves (sheep) for consecrating man as priest. To bishop's protests the man answers, "You should have refused to consecrate me. If I had been worthy I should not have had to promise oves or ova." J1263.2.1
• Trickster chooses his gift. To be rewarded by ruler with a coin, an ass, a sheep, or a vineyard. Answers that he will take the coin, mount the ass, drive the sheep into the vineyard, and there pray for the ruler. J1282
• Unstable security. Stag tries to borrow grain from the sheep, using the wolf as security. Sheep says that they are both so swift that he does not know where they will be on the day of payment. J1383
• The sheep's teeth. Two thieves caught with stolen sheep. One says that he told the other than sheep have lower teeth but no upper, and that they caught the sheep to see. J1391.3
• Bitten by the sheep. Man caught just as he knocks sheep in the head: The sheep bit me (or: I'm not going to let sheep butt me to death). J1391.3.1
• Animals helpless in sea-voyage together. Sheep, duck, and cock in peril The duck swims; the cock flies to the mast. J1711.1
• Why the pigs shriek. The sheep does not understand why the pig being carried to slaughter shrieks. J1733
• Man taken to be sheep. (Cf. X424.) J1765.2
• Black sheep thought to be the devil. J1785.7
• Sheep's head has eaten dumplings. Small boy is at home to watch the dinner. Runs into church, calls out to his mother that the sheep's head has eaten all the dumplings (or butted them out of the pot). J1813.8
• Thankful numskull puts money in the anus of sheep which he supposes has helped him. J1851.4
• Sheep licking her lamb is envied by the wolf. He says, "Such is bad conduct. If I were to do that they would say that I was eating it." J1909.5
• White sheep-skin used as a source of light. J1961
• Man plants hedge: sheep will leave wool on the thorns and bring riches. J2060.2