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Cantiga 147 of the Cantigas de Santa Maria of Alfonso X

The Talking Sheep
A poor old woman, devoted to the Virgin, bought a sheep.

She entrusted it to a shepherd for safekeeping.

At shearing time she went to collect the wool, but the shepherd, who had hidden the sheep, told her that a wolf had eaten it.

The woman realised he was lying and asked the Virgin to restore her sheep.

The sheep cried out: “Here I am.”

The woman sheared it and took the fleece to Rocamadour.


Source: upenn.edu



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