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Motifs — first 20 of 150
- 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
Tale types
- ATU 1004 Hogs in the Mud; Sheep in the Air
- ATU 1006* 'Kill the Sheep that is Looking at You
- ATU 101 The Old Dog as Rescuer of the Child (Sheep)
- ATU 122C The Sheep Persuades the Wolf to Sing before he eats him
- ATU 123B Wolf in Sheep's Clothing Gains Admission to the Fold
- ATU 126 The Sheep Chases the Wolf
- ATU 129 Two Sheep Kill a Fox who licked up the blood they spilled in a fight [J624
- ATU 129A* Sheep Licks her New-born Lamb
- ATU 1381C The Buried Sheep's Head
- ATU 1525M The Sheep in the Cradle (previously Mak and the Sheep)