The constellation
K373 "Owner has refused to accept it." A rascal steals a priest's watch. He tells the priest that he has stolen a watch and offers it to him as a payment for a past favor. The priest refuses to accept stolen goods. Commands the thief to return the watch to the owner. "But the owner has refused to accept it." "Then you may keep it."
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filed under
- Other means of theft · K360 entry
carried in tale type
- 'The Owner Has Refused to Accept It · ATU 1807A
filed beside
- Theft by disobeying orders: misappropriation · K361 entry
- Theft by presenting false order to guardian · K362 entry
- Partner misappropriates common goods · K364 entry
- Theft by confederate · K365 entry
- Theft by trickster's trained animal · K366 entry
- Trickster hides in food and eats it · K371 entry
- Playing godfather. By pretending that he has been invited to be godfather, the trickster makes an opportunity to steal the provisions stored by him and the dupe for the winter. When he returns on successive occasions he reports the name of the child as "Just Begun," "Half Done," etc · K372 entry
- [First Edition (Additions and Corrections): K374. Grave robbing to secure obols in mouth of death.] · K374[1st ed.] entry
- Trickster pretends to teach dance: flees with valuables. (Cf. K571.) · K374 entry
- Thieves steal chickens and have mock funeral to cover theft · K375 entry