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
Prunella (fairy tale) Prunella (fairy tale) Prunella is an Italian fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it "The Grey Fairy Book". It is Aarne-Thompson type 310, the Maiden in the Tower. A version of the tale also appears in "A Book of Witches", by Ruth Manning-Sanders. Italo Calvino included a variant Prezzemolina in his "Italian Folktales". He took a variant from Florence, but noted that variants were found over all of Italy. The captor who demands his captive to do impossible tasks, and the person, usually the captor's child, who helps with them, is a very common fairy tale theme -- Nix Nought Nothing,