False alarm of robbery causes cheated man to be imprisoned — Mythoi

Motif

False alarm of robbery causes cheated man to be imprisoned.

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Other cheats. · Other cheats. · view the constellation · filed as K484.3

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella Rotunda
Persian Lorimer Persian Tales (London, 1919) 321 No. 52.
general Boccaccio Decameron IX No. 4

Within the index

Filed under Cheating by raising an alarm.

Filed beside it

Trickster gets money from a bank by raising an alarm and demanding "what is owing to him." Host with overstock of sour wine spreads rumor of dragon at his house. A crowd gathers and he sells all his wine

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