Motif
Animal companions frighten robbers from a dwelling
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A motif of the Trickster and Boundary Crosser family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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Household Tales by Brothers Grimm Household Tales by Brothers Grimm / CONTENTS; lines 4407-4518 confidence: high
The four animals make their sounds together, burst through the window, and the robbers flee in fright, thinking a ghost has entered; the animals then eat the leftovers.
Four animals combine their noises and sudden entrance so that robbers think a ghost has arrived, flee, and ultimately abandon the house.
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