Animal feigns death repeatedly and then entices owner from goods

Motif

Animal feigns death repeatedly and then entices owner from goods.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Means of hoodwinking the guardian or owner. · view the constellation · filed as K341.2.1

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

JapaneseIkeda
American Negro (Georgia)Harris Remus 72 No. 15
general (North Carolina): Parsons JAFL XXX 172, (Virginia): Bacon and Parsons JAFL XXXV 275f.
general Andros Islands, Bahamas: Parsons MAFLS XIII 10 No. 8.

Within the index

Filed under Thief shams death and steals.

Filed beside it

Thief shams sickness and steals

Carried in tale types

The Theft of Fish · ATU 11 recorded variant

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