Thief detected by building straw fire so that smoke escapes through thief's entrance. The secret hole into the building is thus discovered and the thief caught

Motif

Thief detected by building straw fire so that smoke escapes through thief's entrance. The secret hole into the building is thus discovered and the thief caught.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever persons and acts. · Cleverness in the law court. · Cleverness in detection of truth. · view the constellation · filed as J1143

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella Rotunda.
general *Type 950
general BP III 395ff.
general Köhler-Bolte I 200ff.

Within the index

Filed under Cleverness in detection of truth.

Filed beside it

Solomon able to detect truth without evidence of witnesses Confession obtained by a ruse Pseudo-scientific methods of detecting Eaters of stolen food detected Detection through aid of animal Detection by strewing ashes (sand). Trespasser (lover, mistress, ghost, fairy, etc.) leaves footprints in the ashes Detection through feigned dream Miscellaneous means of detecting

Carried in tale types

Rhampsinitus · ATU 950 1 recorded variant

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