The constellation
K330 Means of hoodwinking the guardian or owner
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- Man gulled into giving up his clothes · K330.1 entry
- Goods stolen while owner sleeps · K331 entry
- Theft by making owner drunk · K332 entry
- Theft from blind person · K333 entry
- Owner gives up goods through flattery · K334 entry
- Thief frightens owner from goods · K335 entry
- House filled with smoke so that owner gives trickster lodging · K336 entry
- Oversalting food of giant so that he must go outside for water. Meantime his goods are stolen · K337 entry
- Thief ties owner's hair while he escapes with goods · K338 entry
- Owner's interest distracted while goods are stolen · K341 entry
- Thief as umpire in contest. Three men are quarreling over the possession of a rescued girl. The umpire will give her to the one who soonest returns with the arrow he shoots. While they run, he takes the girl · K342 entry
- Thief advises owner to go away; meantime steals the goods · K343 entry
- Owner persuaded that his goods are spoiled. (Cf. K355.) · K344 entry
- Sympathetic helper robbed · K345 entry
- Thief trusted to guard goods · K346 entry
- Cozening. Trickster's claim of relationship causes owner to relax vigilance. Goods stolen · K347 entry
- Trickster causes owner and another to fight over goods. Meantime he steals it · K348 entry
- Trickster permitted to try on clothes. Goes away with them · K351 entry
- Theft by posing as doctor. Trickster advises wife to slaughter pig and have the trickster eat it all · K352 entry
- Theft by posing as magician. Trickster claims to be working magic spell over food and eats it · K353 entry
- Trickster asks hospitality: expels owner and appropriates house · K354 entry
- Trickster pollutes house so that he is left in possession. He is in upper room and throws filth on those below (Cf. K344.) · K355 entry
- Tricksters feign death of their father. Collect rent and flee · K356 entry
- Pickpockets strike man on leg so that he takes his hand off his purse · K357 entry