Thief learns location of dupe's food supply by strewing ashes. Fills the dupe's bag with ashes and cuts a hole in the bag

Motif

Thief learns location of dupe's food supply by strewing ashes. Fills the dupe's bag with ashes and cuts a hole in the bag.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Means of entering house or treasury. · view the constellation · filed as K321

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

Africa (Benga)Nassau 155, 204 Nos. 19, 32, (Ekoi): Talbot 57, 62, (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 51 No. 6, 83 No. 13
Jamaica*Beckwith MAFLS XVII 248 No. 24
American Negro (Georgia)Harris Friends 12ff. No. 2.

Within the index

Filed under Means of entering house or treasury.

1 finer motif beneath it

Girl made to carry shell from which ashes fall: she is thus followed

Filed beside it

Thief in disguise Thieves hidden in oil casks. In one cask is oil; in the others the robbers are hidden. The girl kills them Trickster feigns being pursued by drunken husband to obtain entrance Thief enters treasury through secret passage Theft through chimney Thief copies key by making wax impression Watchdog enticed away. Trickster brings rabbit under his coat. When the king's watchdog gives chase the trickster enters and robs Theft of gold hoard by spying on secret hiding place Thief pretends to return grass that has stuck to his clothes to ground where it belongs Theft by use of coat of invisibility. (Cf. D1361.12.)Thief feigns illness to be taken in victim's house. (Cf. K341.2.2.1.) Ransacks it while "recovering."

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