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 Robber Bridegroom (fairy tale) The Robber Bridegroom (fairy tale) "The Robber Bridegroom" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 40. Joseph Jacobs included a variant, "Mr Fox" in "English Fairy Tales", but the original provenance is much older; Shakespeare (circa 1599) alludes to the "Mr. Fox" variant in "Much Ado About Nothing", Act 1, Scene 1: It is Aarne–Thompson type 955, the robber bridegroom. This type is closely related to tales of type 312, such as "Bluebeard", and type 311, such as "How the Devil Married Three Sisters" and "Fitcher's Bird". A miller wished to marry his daughter off,