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- Task: stealing three pearls from king's heavily guarded treasury. H1151.13.5
- To give the accounting afterward. A nobleman embezzles money from the public treasury. When counsellors urge an accounting, he replies that he is ready as soon as they have themselves made an accounting of all their transactions. They are ready to let well enough alone. J1627
- Means of entering house or treasury. K310
- Thief enters treasury through secret passage. K315
- Thief enters treasury through passage made by him as architect of the building. K315.1
- Helpful animal amuses princess with tricks and secures key to treasury. K341.18
- Goldsmith as thief in king's treasury. Makes golden human figure and says it is a corpse. Gets by guards. K419.7
- Mismanagement of king's treasury a mortal offense. P13.2