Aarne-Thompson-Uther (ATU) - Types of Folktales

212: The Lying Goat

ATU > 1-299: ANIMAL TALES > 200-219: Domestic Animals > 212: The Lying Goat

Description

A father sends his sons one after the other to pasture the goat. The goat always declares he has had nothing to eat. The father angrily sends his sons from home and learns, when he himself tries to pasture the goat, that he has been deceived. Cf.…

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External Examples

StoryATUOriginAuthorYearSource
Goat That Lost Half His Skin 212 Hungarian Internet Archive
Skinned Goat 212 German Internet Archive
Tafeltje dekje (Het stoute schaap) 212 Netherlands 2000 Nederlandse VolksverhalenBank
The Goat Who Lied 212 French Internet Archive

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