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AT 1004 in Lexicon

- Hogs in the Mud, Sheep in the Air

The cows driven away, the hogs' tails in the mud, the bell-wether on the tree. I. Pigs' Tails. Left to guard the pigs, the trickster kills and sells them and leaves their tails sticking in the ground. The owner pulls the tails out and is convinced that the pigs have escaped underground. [K404.1]. II. Sheep in Tree. Likewise with the sheep whose tails are in the tree: he thinks they have escaped in the air. [K404.3]. III. Tails in Mouth. One ox is killed and his tail put in the mouth of another: the owner thinks one has eaten the other [K404.2].

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*BP III 392 notes 1, 2 (Grimm No. 192)

*Anderson in Tauscher Volksmärchen 185

Jahrbuch für romanische und englische Literatur VIII 249ff.

Coffin 17

Espinosa III 130-140.