Thieves frightened by ghosts who tie fruits to their hair, which they think are missiles thrown at them

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Thieves frightened by ghosts who tie fruits to their hair, which they think are missiles thrown at them.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Means of hoodwinking the guardian or owner. · view the constellation · filed as K335.1.12

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Robbers frightened from goods. Trickster steals the goods.

Filed beside it

Frightened robber leaves his coat behind Object falls on robbers from tree. They flee and leave money Robbers frightened from goods by the dead. (Cf. K335.0.5.)Robbers frightened from goods by man's outcry. Trickster hits a slain ox and cries out, "Those others did it!" The thieves flee and leave their treasure Animals climb on one another's backs and cry out; frighten robbers Robber frightened from his goods by playing of bagpipe Robbers frightened from goods by hidden man Guardian beast overcome by hero's mirrors Robbers frightened from goods by man in tar and feathers Robbers coming to steal from stable frightened away by bear staying the night there with his keeper Robbers frightened by pretended cannibalism. Tricksters threaten to cook a robber. All the robbers flee in terror, leaving them their booty Sons of thief frightened by threatening to bring the three strongest men to punish them

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