Worthless object (animal) substituted for valuable while owner sleeps

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Worthless object (animal) substituted for valuable while owner sleeps.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Means of hoodwinking the guardian or owner. · view the constellation · filed as K331.3

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

India*Thompson-Balys
Africa (Hottentot)Held 21ff.

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Filed under Goods stolen while owner sleeps.

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Sleeping with open eyes. The man claims to sleep thus and beguiles the ogre into sleeping, so as to rob him Owner put to sleep and goods stolen. Magic or drugs 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

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