C139. Baer (p. 133). According to How the Drop Falls

This is Chase139.

Types
Motifs
K0401.1 dupe's food eaten and then blame fastened on him
K0331 goods stolen while owner sleeps
J2173.1 sleeping trickster's feast stolen
Notes

Baer cites Backus version about Rabbit and Fox.

conclusion: "This joke or tale may possibly be an Afro-American variant of the episode in North American Indian tales which Thompson motifs as J2173.1. To the episode has been added the popular African motif of smearing grease on the sleeping dupe so that he and others would suspect him of having eaten the missing food."