The constellation
K310 Means of entering house or treasury
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- Thief in disguise · K311 entry
- Thieves hidden in oil casks. In one cask is oil; in the others the robbers are hidden. The girl kills them · K312 entry
- Trickster feigns being pursued by drunken husband to obtain entrance · K314 entry
- Thief enters treasury through secret passage · K315 entry
- Theft through chimney · K316 entry
- Thief copies key by making wax impression · K317 entry
- Watchdog enticed away. Trickster brings rabbit under his coat. When the king's watchdog gives chase the trickster enters and robs · K318 entry
- Thief learns location of dupe's food supply by strewing ashes. Fills the dupe's bag with ashes and cuts a hole in the bag · K321 entry
- Theft of gold hoard by spying on secret hiding place · K322 entry
- Thief pretends to return grass that has stuck to his clothes to ground where it belongs · K323 entry
- Theft by use of coat of invisibility. (Cf. D1361.12.) · K324 entry
- Thief feigns illness to be taken in victim's house. (Cf. K341.2.2.1.) Ransacks it while "recovering." · K325 entry