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

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

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 26 receipt

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
Welsh MacCulloch Celtic 107
Finnish Kalevala rune 42 → on our shelf: The Kalevala, Rune XLII
India *Thompson-Balys
Tuamotu Stimson 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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