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

Motif

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

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

Scholars’ trail — 18references

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.

Icelandic*Boberg
French CanadianSister Marie Ursule
Missouri FrenchCarrière
Italian Novella*Rotunda
ItalianBasile Pentamerone V No. 7
Greek*Frazer Pausanias IV 192
India*Thompson-Balys
JapaneseIkeda
IndonesiaDeVries Volksverhalen II 385 No. 157
PhilippineFansler MAFLS XII 71f.
HawaiiBeckwith Myth 349–51, 446f.
AfricaWeeks Jungle 43, (Duala): Lederbogen JAS IV 65, (Cameroon): Lederbogen 129f.
general *Type 1525
general *BP III 379
general *Fb "stjæle" III 575b
general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 850
general Werner Zs. f. Vksk. XXXIX 71ff.
general Wesselski Theorie 17f. Irish myth: *Cross

Within the index

Filed under Thefts and cheats – general.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Youth learns robbery as a trade: boasts of it Family of thieves

Filed beside it

Stolen cows cause a war Female master thief Nations of thieves Contest in stealing Thieves steal from each other. (Cf. K305.2.)Thieves betray each other Youngest brother surpasses elder as thief

Travels with

Skillful thief. (Cf. K301.)Master thief puts watchers to sleep and cuts off their hair. (Cf. K301.)

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