Thieves directed to a hornet's nest as supposed money hiding place

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Thieves directed to a hornet's nest as supposed money hiding place.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Thief loses his goods or is detected. · view the constellation · filed as K421.2

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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.

India*Thompson-Balys.

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Filed under Robber mistakenly carries off worthless goods and leaves valuable.

Filed beside it

Thief hoping to gain bigger booty, loses smaller Two cheats exchange articles as genuine and both find themselves cheated. (Cf. K306.)

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