page_title: The Master Thief
hierarchical_section_title: The Master Thief
caption_attribution_description: Illustration from a book of fairy tales from Europe, translated into english
context_page_description: "The Master Thief" is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Chr. Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe. The Brothers Grimm included a shorter variant as tale 192 in their fairy tales. Andrew Lang included it in The Red Fairy Book. George Webbe Dasent included a translation of the tale in Popular Tales From the Norse. It is Aarne–Thompson type 1525A, Stealing the Count's Horse, Sheet, and Parson.
context_section_description: "The Master Thief" is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Chr. Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe. The Brothers Grimm included a shorter variant as tale 192 in their fairy tales. Andrew Lang included it in The Red Fairy Book. George Webbe Dasent included a translation of the tale in Popular Tales From the Norse. It is Aarne–Thompson type 1525A, Stealing the Count's Horse, Sheet, and Parson.
caption: The lord mistakingly shoots the decoy dummy. Illustration from Joseph Jacobs's Europa's Fairy Book (1916) by John D. Batten.
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