124 motifs match “steals” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• Moon steals food from banquet of the gods. (Cf. A153.1.) A153.3.1
• Devil (ogre) steals thunder's instruments. A162.3.1
• Moon steals from a garden. A753.3.2
• Theft of the seasons. Certain seasons are lacking. A culture hero steals the season from a monster and brings it to his people. A1151
• Man originally without hands and feet. Boy steals them from Python, and afterward men have them. A1225.2
• Theft of light by being swallowed and reborn. The hero transforms himself to a particle. The daughter of the guardian of light swallows him as she is drinking water. He is reborn. As a child in the house he steals light. A1411.2
• Theft of fire. Mankind is without fire. A culture hero steals it from the owner. A1415
• Culture hero steals tools for men. A1446.0.1
• Animal who steals fire scorched: cause of his color. (Cf. A1415.) A2218.3
• Robin steals fire, has breast scorched. A2218.5
• Rabbit burns self under chin when he steals an ember. A2218.7
• Fly steals fire from spider: may eat everywhere. Spider brings fire from hell. Fly steals it from him on the way. (Cf. A2545.1.) A2229.4
• Spider steals thread from Christ: has thread in back of body. (Cf. A2356.2.8.) A2231.6
• Thrush steals woodcock's song. (Cf. A2423.1.1, A2423.2.1.) A2245.1
• Serpent steals from God's coat a stick for his back. (Cf. A2356.1.1.) A2262.3
• Squirrel steals dog's needle: enmity between them. (Cf. A2494.4.1.) A2281.2
• Bird steals island. B172.11
• Kite steals jewels and thus saves condemned man. Innocent man in possession of stolen jewels, is about to be apprehended. Kite carries off the jewels and saves him. B522.2
• Bear steals woman and makes her his wife. B601.1.1
• Prince procures magic object from bathing fairy when he steals her clothes. D838.10
• Magic thieving object. Steals for master. (Cf. D1602.17.) D1605
• Witch steals potatoes, leaving no traces. D2087.8
• Ghost steals collar of priest. Evil therefore befalls priest. E593.1
• Ghost steals book from priest. E593.2
• Ghost steals food and treasure. E593.5
• Fairy comes into man's power when he steals her wings (clothes). She leaves when she finds them. F302.4.2
• Fairy comes into man's power when he steals her clothes. She leaves when she finds them. F302.4.2.1
• Fairy steals child from cradle. F321
• Changeling. Fairy steals child from cradle and leaves fairy substitute. Changeling is usually mature and only seems to be a child. F321.1
• Fairies cause man to lose his senses after he steals flower while visiting them. F361.2.2
• Fairy gifts stop when man steals fairy knife. F361.2.4
• Fairy steals on Hallowe'en. F365.0.1
• Fairy (bonga) steals part of crop. F365.4
• Thieving household-spirit. Steals things for its master. F480.3
• Giant steals from man (fish, sheep, sword). F531.6.7.2.1
• Giant steals from giant. F531.6.8.3.2
• Thumbling steals by entering keyhole. F535.1.1.11.1
• Witch steals children. G261
• Witch steals child with hand through chimney. (Cf. G369.5.) G261.1
• Devil appears when person steals. G303.6.2.15
• Devil steals knight's cloak. G303.9.9.3
• St. George teaches the poor man, "Who steals somewhat and lies somewhat will be rich." J556.1
• Thief's money scales borrowed. A man buries gold and a thief steals it. The owner detects the criminal. He takes some money to the thief and borrows money scales "to weigh so as to bury with the other". The thief decides that he is detected and hastens to return the stolen money. J1141.6
• The woman with bad eyes. Physician called to doctor woman's eyes bandages them and then steals things each day. She refuses to pay fee and is haled to court. She says that her sight is worse than ever for whereas she used to see many things in her house she now sees very little. Theft is thus revealed. J1169.1
• Gold pieces in the honey-pot. Woman leaves honey-pot with neighbor to guard. It has gold below the honey. Neighbor steals the gold and substitutes honey. Theft proved by gold pieces sticking to sides of pot. (Cf. J1192.2.) J1176.3
• Complaint about the stolen ox. A thief steals a calf and keeps the hide. The owner makes a hue and cry about a stolen ox. The thief produces the calfhide: "You thief, to demand an ox for a calf!" J1213.1
• How he would act if he were a hawk. A hawk steals a piece of liver from a trickster and flies away with it. The trickster likewise steals some liver from another man and escapes to a high place with it. He says that he is seeing how he would act if he were a hawk. J1391.4
• Was going to give it to him any way. Thus a hunter answers a thief who steals his hare. J1395
• One wrong and five hundred good deeds. A man steals a large sum, keeps half and distributes the rest among five hundred persons. He says that he has committed one wrong but has done five hundred good deeds. J1605
• Diving for reflected fruit. Meantime rascal steals the fruit itself. J1791.11
• Raven steals the robes of Red Willow Men and finds them useless. J2194
• "Taking a pattern (picture) of conduct" from other people. Fool steals a picture from the church. J2471
• Thankful that the recipe is left. A hawk steals the fool's meat. He is grateful that the recipe remains. J2562
• Stealing only a small amount. A man promises in confession to steal only a small amount. He steals a rope with a mare on the end of it. K188
• Trickster steals farmer's cow and then sells her to the farmer. K258.1
• Thieving contest: first steals eggs from under bird; second meantime steals first's breeches. K305.1
• Blind man steals from neighbor who in turn steals from him. K306.4
• Thief dressed half white, half black. His father's corpse is guarded by twenty knights in black and twenty in white. By disguising he steals back the corpse. K311.0.1
• Man allows himself to be carried off by monkeys, who mistake him for cow: steals their magic cups. K311.6.2
• Master thief puts guards to sleep and steals meat. K331.2.1.2
• Trickster steals magic doll while owner is asleep. K331.5
• The foolishly concealed money: A man hangs a bag of money in the top of a high tree. Servant sleeping with him steals it. K331.6
• Thief lies down in the space between the king's and the queen's bed and steals jewelry from both. K331.7
• Buzzard steals coyote's eyes, while he is throwing them up in the air. K333.3
• Thief places candles on crabs (bugs). When they are turned loose in the churchyard the parson and the sexton think that they are the souls of the dead. Meanwhile the thief steals from them. K335.0.5.1
• Thief frightens priest as the latter crosses cemetery. Meanwhile a confederate steals his chickens. K335.0.5.2
• Robbers frightened from goods. Trickster steals the goods. K335.1
• Thief shams death and steals. K341.2
• Thief shams sickness and steals. K341.2.2
• Shoes dropped to distract owner's attention. The thief drops two shoes in different places and steals a ram while the shepherd goes after the shoes. K341.6
• Animal's cry imitated to distract owner's attention from his goods. Meantime rascal steals an animal. K341.7
• Thief tells his pursuer that the thief has gone to heaven by way of a tree. While the man lies on the ground and looks up, the thief steals his horse. K341.9
• Thief persuades owner to take his place so he can go and catch thief: really steals owner's horse. K341.9.1
• Thief steals belongings of his wife's paramour while the latter is calling on her. K341.14
• One thief distracts attention of owner while other steals. K341.15
• Thief steals pastries while confederate makes a purchase. K341.15.1
• Stone thrown to attract attention of shark guardians. Man then slips in cave and steals lobsters. K341.16
• Trickster entices children to dance and steals their food. K341.17
• Trickster poses as entertainer: steals meat while host assembles friends. K341.19
• The story about theft. One thief steals, the other relates the situation, in the form of a tale, to the gentleman who is being robbed. K341.20
• The supposed magic spell. The thief orders the farmer to crawl into a tub and to sit there quietly and not look about, while he makes a magic spell (cure him of childlessness). Meanwhile, he steals all the farmer's property. K341.22
• Trickster starts argument and steals from arguers. K341.27
• Thief advises owner to go away; meantime steals the goods. K343
• Thief advises that slaughtered meat be hung up over night. Meantime he steals it. K343.2
• The stingy parson and the slaughtered pig. The stingy parson does not want to give any one a part of his pig, which he has just slaughtered. The sexton advises him to hang the pig up in the garden over night so as to make everyone think that it has been stolen. The sexton steals it himself. K343.2.1
• Thief advises that new cloth be hung in the open overnight. Steals it while owner sleeps. K343.2.2
• Cheat induces dupe to go get food reported found and steals clothes as soon as they are left behind. K343.5
• Son-in-law steals father-in-law's pants by making latter believe he has dirtied them. K344.3
• Thief guards his pursuer's horse while the latter follows a false trail. Steals the horse. K346.1
• Thief trusted to guard shawls during prayers. Steals them. K346.4
• Trickster causes owner and another to fight over goods. Meantime he steals it. K348
• The hood for the robe. Thief steals lawyer's scarlet robe. Later he returns and tells lawyer's wife that her husband had sent him for the hood for the robe. He obtains the hood and escapes. K362.9
• "Owner has refused to accept it." A rascal steals a priest's watch. He tells the priest that he has stolen a watch and offers it to him as a payment for a past favor. The priest refuses to accept stolen goods. Commands the thief to return the watch to the owner. "But the owner has refused to accept it." "Then you may keep it." K373
• Thief claims to have been transformed into an ass. While the owner sleeps the thief steals his horse, hitches himself to the wagon, and claims that he is the horse transformed into a man. K403
• Tails in ground. Thief steals animals and sticks severed tails into the ground, claiming that animals have escaped underground. K404.1
• Child's curiosity exposes thief. Thief steals pig. Slaughters it together with one of his own and takes both to market. Puts little pig inside large one to avoid paying tax on two. Boy notices three hind legs. Thief is caught. K433
• The substituted porridge. In cooking dinner fox's porridge is light, bear's black. At dinner fox steals spoonful of bear's porridge and lets bear taste it. Bear believes that fox's porridge is as bad as his own. K471
• Lawyer's dog steals meat. The lawyer tells the butcher that the dog's owner (himself) is liable for damages. He ask double the amount of the damages as fee. K488
• Master thief persuades captors to dive into water: steals their clothes. K634.2
• Blind men duped into fighting: stolen meat. The trickster steals one piece of meat. The blind accuse each other and fight. K1081.2