“robbers” — Mythoi

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Indentions on rock from weapons (limbs) of robbers through power of saint. A972.3.1.1
Dragon guards hermit's food, frightens off robbers. B11.6.5
Demi-coq. A cock is cut in two and is made magic. Carries robbers, foxes, and stream of water under wings. B171.1
Robbers frightened by grateful dog. B576.1.2
Lonesome wife scares robbers by making it appear that her husband is at home. D2031.6.3
Thumbling as accomplice to robbers. F535.1.1.11
Suitor task: to overcome robbers. H335.4.2
Riddle: one killed none and yet killed twelve. (Horse is poisoned; raven eats of him and dies; twelve robbers eat raven and die.) H802
Task: overcoming robbers. H1162.1
Which was the most generous – husband, robber, or lover? Woman has promised her lover to go to him on her wedding night. Husband lets her go. On way she meets robbers and tells her story. Robbers take her to her lover. She tells what has happened. Lover returns her immediately to her husband. H1552.1
"Do not leave the highway": counsel proved wise by experience. Robbers encountered. J21.5
"Do not prefer a new road to an old one." Those who take the new one are killed by robbers. J21.5.1
Woman will not follow donkey on safe path: attacked by robbers. J133.4
Wisdom from robbers (thugs) who disguise selves and show cruel princess how she should treat her husband. J178
Robbers persuaded to give hero sword with which they are afterwards killed. J642.2
Robbers' false plea admitted: counteraccusation. Robbers claim a man's knife. In court: "The knife may indeed be theirs. I and my father were attacked yesterday by robbers. I fled. On returning I found my father killed and this knife in his body." Robbers condemned. J1162.2
Story told to discover thief. Judge tells story of the lady, her husband, her lover, and the robbers (H1552.1). Which was the most generous? Witness says that robber was. This shows that he has robber's point of view. J1177
Servants would not have left the coats. Merchants complain to nobleman that his servants have robbed them of money. Nobleman asks whether merchants had on those good coats when the robbery took place. When told yes, he said that the robbers were not his servants, for they would never have left good coats. J1179.5
Robbers commiserated. A buffoon says to robbers in his house, "You can't find anything here in the dark, for I can find nothing in broad daylight." J1392.2
Man who rises too early. The king in order to correct the habit has him robbed. He says that robbers get up even earlier than he. J1394.2

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