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Overview

A mother goat tells her four children to admit her only after seeing her red hand through a crack in the door. An eavesdropping wolf colors his own hand with henna and takes three of them, while the fourth, Black Eyes, hides. The mother and survivor confront the wolf at his house, and she challenges him to fight.

She obtains sharpened horns by giving a craftsman curds and butter. The wolf instead offers an inflated empty skin to a tooth-puller, who retaliates by replacing his teeth with pointed cotton-wool. The goat then tricks him into drinking excessively before jumping a stream. When he falls in, she tears his stomach open with a horn and takes her three missing children home. The text does not narrate a separate resurrection, and its anthropomorphic hands and trades belong to this animal tale rather than ordinary caprine or wolf anatomy.

Red-hand recognition and henna imitationSharpened hornsSpeaking animal tale
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Origins & earliest records

Kermani storytelling, Iran

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Records & interpretation

Complete I, The Wolf and the Goat, pp. 3–5 directly read in original-edition OCR.

Selected bibliography

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    Persian Tales

    D. L. R. Lorimer and E. O. Lorimer, collectors/translators · 1919

    Kermani tales; I, The Wolf and the Goat, pp. 3–5

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Primary records and illustrations

Direct primary record

D. L. R. Lorimer and E. O. Lorimer, Persian Tales (London: Macmillan, 1919)

Kermani tales. I, pp. 3–5

Complete tale read from heading to closing formula. Children’s return retained without invented resurrection; uncertain OCR of two child names not promoted as authoritative spellings.

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  1. Historical translated folktaleLorimer, Persian Tales (1919), Kermani tales; I, The Wolf and the Goat, pp. 3–5Research access: 2026-10-05

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