Thieving cow — Mythoi

Motif

Thieving cow.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Other means of theft. · view the constellation · filed as K366.1

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Filed under Theft by trickster's trained animal.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Cow makes a hundred-fold return. The trickster has a cow that leads the parson's cows to him. He thus tests the parson's text, "He who gives in God's name shall have it back a hundred-fold." Cow enticed away by calf. Brothers are given the choice of a cow or a calf. One chooses the cow and thinks that he has the best of the bargain. The cow longs for the calf and returns to it Self-returning cow. A cow allows itself to be sold; then returns to its master Cows turned into rice field. Later made to disgorge rice

Filed beside it

Thief feeds stolen money in flour to animal, then asks for ass Thieving bird Thieving ant Thieving dog Speaking goat swallows gold coins in temple and voids for master Thieving turtle Thieving butterflies Thieving octopus

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