Mouton de Panurge
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In French, Panurge appears in the set phrase mouton de Panurge, after a story in which he buys a sheep from the merchant Dindenault and then, for revenge, makes the sheep jump off a cliff.
The rest of the sheep in the herd stupidly jump after it in spite of the shepherd.
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