Trickster pretends to ride home for tools to perform tricks. Rides away on horse — Mythoi

Motif

Trickster pretends to ride home for tools to perform tricks. Rides away on horse.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Means of hoodwinking the guardian or owner. · view the constellation · filed as K341.8.1

Filed across the traditions

Lithuanian Balys Index No. 1532*
Estonian Aarne FFC XXV No. 1528*
Rumanian Schullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 1332*.

Within the index

Filed under Thief pretends to show how horse can be stolen; rides it off.

Filed beside it

Thief pretends to horse dealer that he wishes to buy a horse. Dealer allows him to climb on horse to see how he rides; thief runs off with horse Thief shows knife-maker use of purse-cutting knife: cuts his purse and robs him King loses signet ring while endeavoring to learn from a thief the art of stealing

Carried in tale types

The Clever Boy · ATU 1542 1 recorded variant

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