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Motif

Blind beggar overheard telling that his money is kept in a stick. Thief exchanges sticks.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Means of hoodwinking the guardian or owner. · view the constellation · filed as K333.4

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Theft from blind person.

Filed beside it
Blind Dupe. A blind man's arrow is aimed for him by his mother (or wife) who deceives him into thinking that he has missed his aim. She eats the slain game herself Theft from three old women who have but a single eye among them. The hero seizes their eye Buzzard steals coyote's eyes, while he is throwing them up in the air Theft by blinding with pepper

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