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 Gnome (fairy tale) son to marry the youngest princess anyway for being the only sibling in the offspring to do the right thing for his family. The rescue of the princesses and the throwing down the cliff by his rivals appear also in "The Story of Bensurdatu"; in "The Bold Knight, the Apples of Youth, and the Water of Life", the hero is also thrown down by the rival. The Gnome (fairy tale) "The Gnome" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in "Grimm's Fairy Tales", tale number 91. It is Aarne-Thompson type 301A, The Quest for the Vanished Princesses.