Surreptitious transfer of stolen object to innocent person's possession brings condemnation

Motif

Surreptitious transfer of stolen object to innocent person's possession brings condemnation.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Thief escapes detection. · view the constellation · filed as K401.2.3

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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IndiaThompson-Balys
Buddhist mythMalalasekera I 349, 892.

Within the index

Filed under Stolen goods taken to dupe's house so that he is accused.

Filed beside it

Crow causes serpent to try to swallow a stolen collar and thus be accused of the theft Necklace dropped by crow into snake's hole leads men to kill snake which had eaten the crow's fledglings

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