Overheard conversation: "Money hidden in wall (field)." Thieves take box filled with stone (or dig up field).
The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever practical retorts. · The cheater cheated. · view the constellation · filed as J1517.2
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1 reference (open)
The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.
- India Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under Thieves deceived by prearranged conversation which they overhear. (Cf. K420.)
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