Owner put to sleep and goods stolen. Magic or drugs

Motif

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

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Means of hoodwinking the guardian or owner. · view the constellation · filed as K331.2

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“The other could not understand this at all, and wondered what had caused the deception. The Raccoon SO ae the wigwam and entered to await the cooking of the food. When it was ready, the pieces of meat, for there were eight of them, were put into the bowl and the old - men sat down on the ground facing each other, with the bowl between them. Each took a piece of meat, and they began to talk of various things and were enjoying themselves.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 26 · served from our shelf receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions

North American IndigenousTales of the North American Indians, Tale 26 receipt

On our shelf — the index’s citations, resolved to served chapters

FinnishThe Kalevala, Rune XLIIThompson cites: Kalevala rune 42

Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

Irish mythCross
WelshMacCulloch Celtic 107
FinnishKalevala rune 42 → on our shelf: The Kalevala, Rune XLII
India*Thompson-Balys
TuamotuStimson MS (z-G. 3/1142).
general Dickson 63, 67 n. 13, 68 n. 15

Within the index

Filed under Goods stolen while owner sleeps.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Master thief puts watchers to sleep and cuts off their hair. (Cf. K301.)Guards fatigued by trickster so that they sleep while goods are stolen

Filed beside it

Sleeping with open eyes. The man claims to sleep thus and beguiles the ogre into sleeping, so as to rob him Worthless object (animal) substituted for valuable while owner sleeps Mouse's tail in mouth of sleeping owner causes him to cough up magic object Trickster steals magic doll while owner is asleep The foolishly concealed money: A man hangs a bag of money in the top of a high tree. Servant sleeping with him steals it Thief lies down in the space between the king's and the queen's bed and steals jewelry from both

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Music causes magic sleep. (Cf. D1275.1.)Fog produced by magic

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