The Sharp Grey Sheep The Sharp Grey Sheep The Sharp Grey Sheep or The Sharp-Horned Grey Sheep is a Scottish fairy tale collected by John Francis Campbell in "Popular Tales of the West Highlands", listing his informant as John Dewar, labourer, from Glendaruail, Cowal. It is Aarne-Thompson type 510A. See also "Rushen Coatie", a nearly identical Scottish version of the "Cinderella" tale. A king and queen had a daughter, but the queen died and the king married another. The stepmother was cruel to the princess and sent her to watch the sheep while not sending her enough food to survive. A sharp (horned) grey
The Dragon (fairy tale) its preamble, yet while the plotting queen has met her doom in appropriate fashion, there is incongruity in the serial rapist-murderer king getting away scot-free without being discomfitted in the least. The Dragon (fairy tale) The Dragon () is an Italian literary fairy tale, included in Giambattista Basile's "Pentamerone" (Tale IV.5), first published 1635. In the English language, the tale was a selection in Thomas Keightley's "Fairy Mythology" (1828), and later appeared in John Edward Taylor (fl. 1840-1855)'s translation of the entire work, "The Pentamerone, or, The Story of Stories, Fun for the Little Ones" (1848). The tale has been