μῦθοι Mythoi
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

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • French Canadian Sister Marie Ursule
  • Missouri French Carrière
  • Italian Novella *Rotunda
  • Italian Basile Pentamerone V No. 7
  • Greek *Frazer Pausanias IV 192
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Japanese Ikeda
  • Indonesia DeVries Volksverhalen II 385 No. 157
  • Philippine Fansler MAFLS XII 71f.
  • Hawaii Beckwith Myth 349–51, 446f.
  • Africa Weeks 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 (Thompson’s cf.)
Skillful thief. (Cf. K301.) Master thief puts watchers to sleep and cuts off their hair. (Cf. K301.)

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