ATU 950
Rhampsinitus
Aarne–Thompson–Uther tale-type index · Religious Tales · The full type description is not served here; the number and name are the classification facts.
Motifs the recorded variants carry
- Tell-tale hand-mark. Clandestine lover is identified by paint marks left on his skin by his mistress. 1 variant
- Thief's corpse carried through street to see who will weep for him. 1 variant
- Thief detected by building straw fire so that smoke escapes through thief's entrance. The secret hole into the building is thus discovered and the thief caught. 1 variant
- Thief enters treasury through passage made by him as architect of the building. 1 variant
- Theft by making owner drunk. 1 variant
- Thief has his companion cut off his head so that he may escape detection. 1 variant
- Marked culprit marks everyone else and escapes detection. 1 variant
- King's daughter put into brothel to catch thief. 1 variant
- Victim trapped. 1 variant