Thief guards his pursuer's horse while the latter follows a false trail. Steals the horse

Motif

Thief guards his pursuer's horse while the latter follows a false trail. Steals the horse.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Means of hoodwinking the guardian or owner. · view the constellation · filed as K346.1

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.
general *Type 1540
general **Aarne FFC XXII 3–109
general *BP II 440
general Berber: Basset Contes Berbères (Paris, 1887) I 114

Within the index

Filed under Thief trusted to guard goods.

1 finer motif beneath it

King persuaded to change clothes with thief disguised as old woman. Thief rides king's horse away

Filed beside it

Herdsman slaughters animals entrusted to him Woman persuaded to go after her forgotten comb. Goods stolen by guard Thief trusted to guard shawls during prayers. Steals them Cloak as surety that owner will return. Thief runs away with it Thief takes mistress's ornaments across river on pretense of keeping them safe, and then deserts her

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