The Cunning Shoemaker is an Italian fairy tale collected by Laura Gonzenbach in Sicilianische Mahrchen.
The thieves bought the donkey for fifty gold pieces, and the shoemaker told them that they must each keep it one night apiece, to avoid quarrels over the money.
Finally, the robbers put the man in a bag and lugged him to the sea, but first they rested in a church because it was hot.
A swineherd with a herd of pigs came by, and the shoemaker told that he was in the bag because they wanted him to marry the king's daughter and he wouldn't.
The swineherd traded places with him, the shoemaker left with the pigs, and the robbers threw the bag into the sea.