The constellation
N231 The fourteen lucky daughters. The husband leaves his wife, who has given birth to fourteen girls, thinking he is persecuted by bad luck because of failure to have a son. On the seashore, the girls find precious stones. The wife, now prosperous, finds her husband among beggars
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- The good gifts of fortune · N200 entry
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- Wish for exalted husband realized. Girls make wish that they may marry king (prince, etc.). It so happens · N201 entry
- Wishes for good fortune realized · N202 entry
- Lucky person · N203 entry
- Lost object returns to its owner · N211 entry
- Money cannot be kept from where it is destined to go. Miser told that his hoard is to go to poor man. He hides it in a trunk and throws it into the sea but it drifts to the house of the poor man who tries in vain to restore it to its owner · N212 entry
- Man fated to be rich · N213 entry
- Child borne off by tiger, which is caught by griffin, which is killed by lioness, which rears child with her whelps · N215 entry
- Man granted power of winning at cards · N221 entry
- First objects picked up bring fortune · N222 entry
- Man must have drinking horn; stumble reveals one as he departs on search · N223 entry