Tails in ground. Thief steals animals and sticks severed tails into the ground, claiming that animals have escaped underground

Motif

Tails in ground. Thief steals animals and sticks severed tails into the ground, claiming that animals have escaped underground.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Thief escapes detection. · view the constellation · filed as K404.1

Scholars’ trail — 12references

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.

IcelandicSveinsson FFC LXXXIII No. 1004
Missouri FrenchCarrière
Louisiana CreoleFortier MAFLS II 110 No. 2
IndonesiaDeVries's list No. 241
Africa (Vai)Ellis 249 No. 41
American Negro (Georgia)Harris Remus 98 No. 20, Nights 230 No. 39, 241 No. 41, (Virginia): Smiley JAFL XXXII 368, (South Carolina): Parsons MAFLS XVI 31f., JAFL XXXIV 8
BahamaCleare JAFL XXX 228
Jamaica*Beckwith MAFLS XVII 252 No. 29
Cape Verde IslandsParsons MAFLS XV (1) 109 n. 2, 113.
general *Type 1004
general BP III 392 n. 1
general *Fb "hale" I 537, "svin" III 676a

Within the index

Filed under Thief escapes by leaving animal's severed tail and claiming that the animal has escaped and left his tail.

Filed beside it

Ox's tail in another's mouth. The thief kills one ox and puts the tail in another ox's mouth: the owner thinks one ox has eaten the other Stolen sheep's tails severed and put in tree. Owner made to believe that they have escaped through the air

Carried in tale types

Hogs in the Mud; Sheep in the Air · ATU 10041 recorded variant
Thieves Cheated of their Booty · ATU 1525J1 recorded variant

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