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K335 Thief frightens owner from goods
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- Owner frightened from goods by report of approaching enemy · K335.0.1 entry
- Owners frightened away from goods by report of deadly epidemic. Poor parson thus rids himself of unwelcome guests; they leave food they have brought · K335.0.2 entry
- Trickster quarrels with owner of goods, feigns death, and frightens owner away · K335.0.3 entry
- Owner frightened away from goods by a bluff · K335.0.4 entry
- Owner frightened from goods by apparitions of the dead. (Cf. K335.1.2.) · K335.0.5 entry
- Owner frightened from goods by trickster's ferocious animal. Pretended dog is really a lion · K335.0.6 entry
- Thief frightens away guards of his father's corpse by impersonating demons · K335.0.7 entry
- Town crier is frightened by the voice of a cleric robbing a grave · K335.0.8 entry
- Delivery boy is frightened into giving up his chickens. Trickster upturns his eyelids and puts on boar's tusks · K335.0.9 entry
- Trickster lights torches and bluffs old woman into giving him money. Torches alleged to belong to man coming to collect damages from her · K335.0.10 entry
- Servants frightened by ferocious actions of robbers; give up masters' food · K335.0.11 entry
- Owner frightened away by thief disguised as devil · K335.0.12 entry
- Owner frightened from goods by trickster's summons of wild buffalo herd · K335.0.13 entry
- Robbers frightened from goods. Trickster steals the goods · K335.1 entry
keeps company
- Escape by false plea. A captive makes a request or proposes an action that permits him eventually to escape · K550 entry
- Animal "punished" by being placed in favorite environment · K581 entry
- Victim persuaded to hold out his tongue: cut off. Robbers induced by various excuses (to learn to sing, to learn foreign language, to have a hair taken off the tongue) · K825 entry
- Deceptive scratching contest · K83 entry
- Trickster pollutes nest and brood of bird · K932 entry
- Rape · T471 entry
- Trickster's burnt flesh becomes gum on trees · A2731.1 entry
- Magic garment (robe, tunic) · D1052 entry
- Magic reawakening of memory. (Cf. D1360, D1910.) · D2006 entry
- Transformation to be put in food-bag · D657.1 entry
carried in tale type
- Various Ways of Exorcising Devils [D2176] · ATU 1168
- The Sexton Falls into the Brewing Vat · ATU 1776
attested in
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 38