μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.
  • general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 211 No. 428, *215 No. 446
Within the index

Filed under Accidental discovery of crime.

1 finer motif beneath it
Man scolds his ass and frightens robber away. While the man is absent from his ass the robber steals the man's coat. The ass brays and the man scolds him. The robber thinking he is discovered flees and leaves the coat
Filed beside it
Criminal accidentally detected: "that is the first."Numskull bribed to keep silent in elephant sale when he manifests interest, though utterly ignorantCane as evidence of robbery. A man believing that he has killed a robber forgets his cane. Later finds it in robber's houseMurder revealed to thieves climbing into bankImpostor accidentally gives king talking bed which reveals his identityOfficer comes accidentally to the same building where the fugitive sleeps
Travels with
Criminal accidentally detected: "That is the first" – sleepy woman counting her yawns. Robber hearing her flees. (Cf. N612.)
Carried in tale types

wander