The constellation
N251 Person pursued by misfortune. (Placidas, Eustacius.) His goods are destroyed, his wife carried off by a ship captain and his children by animals
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- Persistent bad luck · N250 entry
beneath it
- Man captured by pirates is maimed, crippled, blinded. He is patient through it all. Finally he is elected ruler by his dead master's subjects · N251.1 entry
- Man who aspires to greater wealth loses all. When he is about to be rewarded by king the latter dies · N251.2 entry
- Man who loses fortune marries widow of his rich master. (Cf. N227.) · N251.3 entry
- Travelers pursued by misfortune · N251.4 entry
- Fortune of the lucky wife. A luckless man becomes successful in all his undertakings when he marries a lucky woman and lives by her luck · N251.5 entry
- The luckless son and his envious father. Seeing a luck-bringing animal at his son's house, the wizard father orders it to be destroyed, but the grandchildren eat of its meat and become fortunate · N251.6 entry
- Misfortune pursues farmer · N251.7 entry
carried in tale type
- Placidas · ATU 938