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- Woodpecker from devil's herdsman transformed. The devil strikes his herdsman so that he turns into a bird who continually calls after his beloved cow. (Cf. A1710.) A1957.1
- Animal as herdsman. B576.3
- Dead poet leaves grave mound to teach poem to herdsman: latter becomes great poet. E377.1
- Fairy as herdsman. F271.6
- Giant herdsman. F531.6.17.5
- Remarkable herdsman. Sits on mountain top. Cows come from great distance at his call. F679.1
- Giant herdsman. Hideous beastlike giant guards a herd of wild fighting animals. Herdsman can seize one of them in such a way as to make rest beg mercy. G152
- King and abbot. King propounds three riddles to abbot to answer on pain of death. Herdsman disguises as abbot and answers questions. H561.2
- How far is it from happiness to misfortune? One day; yesterday I was herdsman and now I am abbot. (Cf. H561.2.) H685.1
- Herdsman neglects his she-goats in favor of wild-goats. She-goats die; wild-goats run off. J345.1
- Horn will tell the tale. Thus answers goat to herdsman who begs her not to tell master that he has broken off her horn. J1082.1
- Herdsman slaughters animals entrusted to him. K346.2
- 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
- Adventurer on otherworld island sees great hornless oxen guarded by giant: tries to frighten them. "Why dost thou frighten the stilly calves?" says the huge herdsman. "Where are the dams of these calves?" asks the adventurer. "They are on the other side of yonder mountain," said he. So he went thence. K1784.2
- Disguise as herdsman (shepherd, swineherd, etc.) K1816.6
- Treacherous herdsman. K2255
- The devil makes the herdsman's son a priest in return for a whistle. After quarreling with the devil, who asked to repair the whistle during Mass, the priest forgets all he learned and does not know how to hold Mass. Is beaten. M216.2
- Wager: whose hunger is it more difficult to appease – that of man or that of beast? When nuts are strewn before master's well-fed guests, they snatch and eat them. Herdsman wins wager. N73
- Herdsman rescues abandoned child. (Cf. S351.2.) R131.3
- Abandoned child reared by herdsman. (Cf. R131.3.) S351.2