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 Lost Children (French fairy tale) The Lost Children (French fairy tale) The Lost Children is a French fairy tale collected by Antoinette Bon in "Revue des traditions populaires". It is Aarne-Thompson type 327A. Another tale of this type is "Hansel and Gretel"; "The Lost Children" combines with that type several motifs typical of "Hop o' My Thumb", which is typical of French variants. A couple, Jacques and Toinon, were very stingy. Their children – Jean, who was twelve, and his sister Jeanette, who was eight – suffered because of this, and finally they decided to lose them in the forest. Toinon took them and left