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Motif

Thief frightens priest as the latter crosses cemetery. Meanwhile a confederate steals his chickens.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Means of hoodwinking the guardian or owner. · view the constellation · filed as K335.0.5.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Novella Rotunda.
Within the index

Filed under Owner frightened from goods by apparitions of the dead. (Cf. K335.1.2.)

Filed beside it
Thief places candles on crabs (bugs). When they are turned loose in the churchyard the parson and the sexton think that they are the souls of the dead. Meanwhile the thief steals from them

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “confederate” · wander