Youth learns robbery as a trade: boasts of it.
Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts and cheats – general. · view the constellation · filed as K301.1
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- Missouri French Carrière
- 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
Carried in tale types
- Tasks for a Thief (previously Theft of Dog, Horse, Sheet, or Ring) · ATU 1525A 2 recorded variants
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