This is Chase141.
Types
ATU1525D theft by distracting attention
Motifs
K0341.6 shoes dropped to distract owner's attention
Notes
Lambrecht has a Luba tale about Dibwe and Malisawa, where Malisawa drops a boot and then another one to get Dibwe's bag of money.
Baughman has Clouston, plus 5 American versions.
Baer concludes: "AT1525 Master Thief is a giant international folktale conglomerate which needs full-scale investigation and -- probably -- divestiture. This particular story, very American in its details, could have entered the Afro-American repertory from any of a variety of sources."
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