μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • Italian Novella*Rotunda
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general Type 1875
Within the index

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

3 finer motifs beneath it
Thieves steal chest containing hidden paramour. Are frightened away by his outcryRobbers frightened from goods by Thumbling. They can hear him but cannot see himThe thief in the beehive. Other thieves come to steal the bees, take the heaviest hive to the forest and make a fire under it. They flee when they hear a man screaming in the beehive
Filed beside it
Frightened robber leaves his coat behindObject falls on robbers from tree. They flee and leave moneyRobbers 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 treasureAnimals climb on one another's backs and cry out; frighten robbersRobber frightened from his goods by playing of bagpipeGuardian beast overcome by hero's mirrorsRobbers frightened from goods by man in tar and feathersRobbers coming to steal from stable frightened away by bear staying the night there with his keeperRobbers frightened by pretended cannibalism. Tricksters threaten to cook a robber. All the robbers flee in terror, leaving them their bootySons of thief frightened by threatening to bring the three strongest men to punish themThieves frightened by ghosts who tie fruits to their hair, which they think are missiles thrown at them

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