The Master Thief - Variants

Variants

• The Grimm Brothers' version begins with the son's arrival home, and the squire sets him the tasks of stealing the horses from the stable, the sheet and his wife's wedding ring, and the parson and clerk from the church as tests of skill, or he would hang him. The thief succeeds and leaves the country.
• It was a storybook and cassette in the Once Upon a Time Fairy Tale series where the Squire is called the Count and the tasks he gives the thief are to steal his horse, the bedsheet and the Parson and Saxon from the church. When he has succeeded, the Count tells him if he changes his ways, he will make him Governor of the town. The Thief agrees, promising never to steal anything again.