Thief enters treasury through passage made by him as architect of the building — Mythoi

Motif

Thief enters treasury through passage made by him as architect of the building.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Means of entering house or treasury. · view the constellation · filed as K315.1

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella *Rotunda.
general *Type 950
general *BP III 394
general Köhler-Bolte I 200
general *Chauvin VIII 186
general **Huet RTP XXXIII 1, 109, 253
general *Frazer Pausanias V 176ff.
general Penzer V 245, *X 285

Within the index

Filed under Thief enters treasury through secret passage.

Filed beside it

Underground passage gives entrance to closed chamber Thief bores hole in house wall, then introduces blackened pot as a feeler Thieves enter palace through hole in wall and abduct new bride

Carried in tale types

Rhampsinitus · ATU 950 1 recorded variant

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