Guards fatigued by trickster so that they sleep while goods are stolen

Motif

Guards fatigued by trickster so that they sleep while goods are stolen.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Means of hoodwinking the guardian or owner. · view the constellation · filed as K331.2.2

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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 (Kaffir)Theal 179.

Within the index

Filed under Owner put to sleep and goods stolen. Magic or drugs.

Filed beside it

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

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