μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Thief escapes detection. · view the constellation · filed as K404.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Lithuanian Balys Index No. 1525G*
  • Estonian Aarne FFC XXV No. 1525G*
  • Russian Andrejev No. 1525G*.
  • general Type 1004
  • general *BP III 392 n. 2
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
Tails in ground. Thief steals animals and sticks severed tails into the ground, claiming that animals have escaped underground Stolen sheep's tails severed and put in tree. Owner made to believe that they have escaped through the air
Carried in tale types

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