Trickster permitted to try on ornaments. Goes off with them

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Trickster permitted to try on ornaments. Goes off with them.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Means of hoodwinking the guardian or owner. · view the constellation · filed as K351.3

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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.

Cook IslandsBeckwith Myth 445.

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Trickster persuades tailor to leave his goods. Makes him believe he will get order to clothe fifty poor. Trickster makes away with goods. (Or tries on boots and makes away with them.)Thief borrows cloak so to carry food. Disappears with it

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