Girl tells the thief money is in chest. When he looks in chest, girl drops lid on him

Motif

Girl tells the thief money is in chest. When he looks in chest, girl drops lid on him.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Thefts. · Thief loses his goods or is detected. · view the constellation · filed as K434.3

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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.

LithuanianBalys Index No. 959C*.

Within the index

Filed under Clever girl discovers robber and cheats him.

Filed beside it

The girl seizes the robber concealed under the bed by the beard and says: "What a coarse bundle of flax. I need a finer one."Disguised robber in night-lodging tries to pull up confederate on rope: princess discovers him and catches him

Carried in tale types

Miscellaneous Robber and Murder Stories · ATU 9681 recorded variant

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