μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Goods stolen while owner sleeps.

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Missouri French Carrière
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Hawaii Beckwith Myth 350
  • Cook Islands Beckwith Myth 270
  • West Indies Flowers 503.
Within the index

Filed under Means of hoodwinking the guardian or owner.

7 finer motifs beneath it
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 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
Filed beside it
Man gulled into giving up his clothes Theft by making owner drunk Theft from blind person Owner gives up goods through flattery Thief frightens owner from goods House filled with smoke so that owner gives trickster lodging Oversalting food of giant so that he must go outside for water. Meantime his goods are stolen Thief ties owner's hair while he escapes with goods Owner's interest distracted while goods are stolen Thief as umpire in contest. Three men are quarreling over the possession of a rescued girl. The umpire will give her to the one who soonest returns with the arrow he shoots. While they run, he takes the girl Thief advises owner to go away; meantime steals the goods Owner persuaded that his goods are spoiled. (Cf. K355.) Sympathetic helper robbed Thief trusted to guard goods Cozening. Trickster's claim of relationship causes owner to relax vigilance. Goods stolen Trickster causes owner and another to fight over goods. Meantime he steals it
Carried in tale types

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