The constellation
K414 Quartered thief's body sewed together to escape detection
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- Thief escapes detection · K400 entry
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- Blame for theft fastened on dupe · K401 entry
- The lamb without a heart. Accused of eating the lamb's heart, the thief maintains that it had no heart · K402 entry
- Thief claims to have been transformed into an ass. While the owner sleeps the thief steals his horse, hitches himself to the wagon, and claims that he is the horse transformed into a man · K403 entry
- Thief escapes by leaving animal's severed tail and claiming that the animal has escaped and left his tail · K404 entry
- Thief successfully claims that stolen goods are his own · K405 entry
- Stolen animal disguised as person so that thief may escape detection · K406 entry
- Severed limb prevents detection · K407 entry
- The stolen cow successively pawned. In one night a thief pawns a cow four times, always stealing it immediately and finally delivering it back to its owner · K408 entry
- Thief presents alibi. Plays all night for dance while confederate commits actual theft · K411 entry
- Detection of theft of bull escaped by putting boots on bull · K412 entry