ATU 123B Wolf in Sheep's Clothing Gains Admission to the Fold

ATU 123B

Wolf in Sheep's Clothing Gains Admission to the Fold

Aarne–Thompson–Uther tale-type index · Animal Tales · The full type description is not served here; the number and name are the classification facts, and the motifs below are the doors onward.

Motifs the recorded variants carry

Fox in sheepskin gains admission to fold and kills sheep. 1 variant
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. 1 variant

Type numbers and names after Aarne–Thompson–Uther, via Hagedorn, trilogy (2022), CC-BY-NC-SA; motif links weighted by the dataset’s recorded tale variants. Served as classification facts with attribution.