Thieving contest: first steals eggs from under bird; second meantime steals first's breeches

Motif

Thieving contest: first steals eggs from under bird; second meantime steals first's breeches.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts and cheats – general. · view the constellation · filed as K305.1

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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general BP III 393 n. 1.

Within the index

Filed under Contest in stealing.

Filed beside it

Friends enter into stealing contest. Steal from each other. (Cf. K306.)Youths execute a series of clever thefts

Carried in tale types

The Four Skillful Brothers · ATU 6534 recorded variants

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