Youth learns robbery as a trade: boasts of it

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Youth learns robbery as a trade: boasts of it.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts and cheats – general. · view the constellation · filed as K301.1

Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

Missouri FrenchCarrière
India*Thompson-Balys.
general *Type 1525
general BP III 379ff.

Within the index

Filed under Master thief. Man undertakes to steal various closely guarded things. Succeeds by cleverness.

Filed beside it

Family of thieves

Carried in tale types

Tasks for a Thief (previously Theft of Dog, Horse, Sheet, or Ring) · ATU 1525A2 recorded variants

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