Elephant cuts piece from own leg and puts it on shelf, lest he be accused of stealing meat

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Elephant cuts piece from own leg and puts it on shelf, lest he be accused of stealing meat.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Thief escapes detection. · view the constellation · filed as K407.3

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

Africa (Cameroon)Lederbogen 3.

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Filed under Severed limb prevents detection.

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

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