Types ATU1525J Thief Leaves Food Untouched when owner pretends to be poisoned by it
Motifs
K0439.4 Thief Leaves Food Untouched when owner pretends to be poisoned by it
Notes
Jones has partridge playing this trick on the rabbit, and Flowers has two West Indies analogues.
Baer concludes "often when a tale occurs only in the West Indies and the southern states, they have a mutual source in Africa; but in this case no such source has turned up."
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