51 motifs match “shepherd”  ·  back to the chapters

• Shepherd-god. A453
• First shepherder. A1443.1
• Origin of shepherd's pipe. A1461.6
• Creation of hoopoe. Transformed shepherd. (Cf. A1710, A2261.1.) A1952
• Bittern from transformed shepherd. (Cf. A1710, A2261.1.) A1965.2
• Origin of insects: God throws sand on lazy shepherds. (Cf. A1716.1). A2005
• 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
• Animal as shepherd for man. B292.1
• Baboon as shepherd for man. B292.1.1
• Dog as shepherd for man. B292.1.2
• Shepherd's consecrated staff keeps cow from straying. (Cf. D1254.) D1446.3
• Saint's staff serves as a shepherd. (Cf. D1254.) D1446.4
• Dwarf conducts shepherd to hell to collect debt from nobleman. F451.5.1.14
• Dumb princess brought to speak by shepherd who insults her. H343.1
• What does God do? He brings low the proud and exalts the lowly (said by shepherd masking as bishop to king, who has exchanged places with him). (Cf. H562.) H797.1
• 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
• Question (propounded on quest): Is a poor shepherd known to God? Answer: He had been a very generous god-fearing person in his last birth and God had not forgotten him. H1292.17
• Shipwrecked shepherd distrusts the sea. He had formerly envied sailors. J11
• Escaped lamb delivers himself to shepherd rather than to slaughter. J217.1
• Lion leaves sleeping hare to follow the shepherd. Loses both victims. J321.3
• 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
• Eagle warns shepherds that wolf is eating sheep. Crow rebukes eagle for thus imperiling his own food supply. J715.1
• Clever shepherd. J1115.9
• Hungry shepherd attracts attention. He tells of a cow with four teats who bore five calves. They ask what the fifth calf does while the other four are nursing. "It looks on just as I am doing now." J1341.6
• Shepherd taken to be she-ass. J1765.1
• The shepherd who cried "Wolf!" too often. When the wolf really comes no one believes him. J2172.1
• Shepherd shuts up the lion in the yard with the live-stock. He hopes to capture the lion, but loses all his beasts. J2172.2
• Wolf almost locked up in the stable by the shepherd. The dog: "What good to lock us up from the wolf when he is with us?" J2172.2.1
• Names of dogs literally interpreted. The names are "The Shepherd" and "Get the stick". When the man calls his dogs to dinner, the thief thinks that he is telling the shepherd to get a stick. J2493
• Devil is made sick of his bargain. Devil helps shepherd boy become a minister on condition that he mention Satan by name each time he enters pulpit. Boy consents but does so in such a way that devil begs to abolish the agreement. K262.1
• Shoes dropped to distract owner's attention. The thief drops two shoes in different places and steals a ram while the shepherd goes after the shoes. K341.6
• Shepherd threatened by tiger says he will report matter to ass: tiger flees. K547.8
• 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. K934
• Adulteress tells lover "I can see the whole world." Hidden shepherd asks "Can you see my lost calves (ass)?" K1271.4
• Bluff: only one tiger; you promised ten. Child (or shepherd) calls out to the small hero (ape, hare) and makes the tiger (ogre) think that he is lucky to escape alive. K1715.2
• Disguise as herdsman (shepherd, swineherd, etc.) K1816.6
• Wolf offers to act as shepherd: plan detected. K2061.1
• Dog caresses sick sheep: shepherd knows that he hopes for sheep's death. K2061.3
• Shepherd as hero. L113.1.4
• Shepherd as helper. N841
• Shepherd. P412
• Shepherd as hero. P412.1
• Life of shepherd proper preparation for ruler. P412.1.1
• Shepherd rescues abandoned child. (Cf. N841.) R131.3.1
• Noblewoman weds shepherd. T121.2
• Shepherdess born of red and blue egg. T542.1
• Shepherd in king's palace sickens for country air. U135.2
• A "crown of thorns" among gifts given by the shepherds to Joseph, husband of Virgin Mary. V211.1.6
• Angel announces birth of Christ to shepherds. V235.1
• Toad asks magpie in tree to throw down a chestnut. Magpie refuses, saying it might break its beak. Toad promises, if that happens, to get a horsehair to tie it up again. Magpie throws chestnut and breaks beak. Toad asks ass for hair, but ass first demands grass; mower demands sheep; shepherd, pup; mother dog, bread; baker, stumps. Toad cuts the stumps and gets the hair. Z43.1
• The cock strikes out the hen's eye with a nut. The cock blames the hazel bush for tearing its knickers, the hazel bush the goat for gnawing at it, the goat the shepherd-boy for not tending it, the boy his mistress for not baking him a bun, the mistress the pig for eating up the dough, the pig the wolf for killing its young. Z43.2