Thief beguiles guardian of goods by assuming equivocal name

Motif

Thief beguiles guardian of goods by assuming equivocal name.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Means of hoodwinking the guardian or owner. · view the constellation · filed as K359.2

ask the rhapsode about this motif →

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

Within the index

Filed under Means of hoodwinking guardian or owner – miscellaneous.

1 finer motif beneath it

Thief of sweetmeats says his name is Fly. Child shouts to father, "Fly is eating," etc. "Never mind the fly, guard against the cow."

Filed beside it

Theft by means of magic invisibility Trickster dupes woman into putting him into basket. He thus learns where food is kept Crow makes friends with pigeon so as to be able to steal food in household to which he belongs Objects stolen by means of magic impersonation

wander