Stolen sheep dressed as person sitting at helm of boat

Motif

Stolen sheep dressed as person sitting at helm of boat.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Thief escapes detection. · view the constellation · filed as K406.1

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

RussianAndrejev No. 1525H*.
general Type 1525H*

Within the index

Filed under Stolen animal disguised as person so that thief may escape detection.

Filed beside it

Stolen sheep dressed as baby in cradle, so that thief may escape detection. (Mak.)Stolen animal magically transformed so that thief may escape detection

Carried in tale types

The Sheep in the Cradle (previously Mak and the Sheep) · ATU 1525M1 recorded variant

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