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Motifs
- God of flocks. A441.1.2
- Fairies in form of devastating animals kill flocks. F366.3
- Enigmatic statement: the flocks are only rocks and grass. (Else you would have given the beggar milk and curds.) H594.3
- Herdsman threatens invasion with enormous herds: bought off. He hires himself as herdsman of all his master's flocks for ten years. He then sends notice to surrounding peoples that he is coming with his master's flocks to graze. They bribe him to stay away. K1784
- The stupid monk recovers the stolen flocks. A nobleman steals the abbot's flocks, saying that the monks have no use for them since they eat no meat. The most learned of the monks tries to recover them, but without success. The most stupid is then sent. Asked to dinner, he eats till he can hold no more. He tells the nobleman that he ate as much as possible since he could take back with him only what he had in his stomach. The nobleman pleased with the reply returns the flocks. L141.1
- Prophecy: all flocks will perish and family die. M359.6