Thief has his companion cut off his head so that he may escape detection

Motif

Thief has his companion cut off his head so that he may escape detection.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Thief escapes detection. · view the constellation · filed as K407.1

Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

Italian Novella*Rotunda
GreekGrote I 122
India*Thompson-Balys.
general *Type 950
general BP III 395ff.
general *Krappe "Trophonios and Agamedes" Archiv für Religionswissenschaft XXX 228–241

Within the index

Filed under Severed limb prevents detection.

Filed beside it

Companion's arm allowed to be cut off so as to prevent detection. Thief has had his arm cut off as he enters a hole in a wall. He lets his companion also enter and have his severed Elephant cuts piece from own leg and puts it on shelf, lest he be accused of stealing meat

Carried in tale types

Rhampsinitus · ATU 9501 recorded variant

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