Sympathetic helper sent for remedy and robbed — Mythoi

Motif

Sympathetic helper sent for remedy and robbed.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Means of hoodwinking the guardian or owner. · view the constellation · filed as K345.1

Filed across the traditions

Africa (Benga) Nassau 86 No. 4, (Thonga): Junod 221, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 386 No. 12.

Within the index

Filed under Sympathetic helper robbed.

Filed beside it

Thief sent into well by trickster. A weeping boy tells a passing thief that he has lost a silver cup in a well. The thief takes off his clothes and goes after the cup, intending to keep it. He finds nothing. When he comes up, his clothes have been stolen Dupe left to care for child while his goods are stolen Antelope sends leopard for fire, eats game while leopard is gone

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