The constellation
N658 Husband arrives home just in time to save wife and her father from being burned to death in their home
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The same sky, in words
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- Life saved by accident · N650 entry
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- Pet swan saves self by singing death song. Master about to mistake the swan in the dark for the goose that is to be slaughtered · N651 entry
- Nut falls and wakes man about to be bitten by snake · N652 entry
- Child falls from cliff; uninjured · N653 entry
- Hero catches spear hurled at him and kills serpent with it · N654 entry
- Waves break caul of abandoned child. He is rescued · N655 entry
- Angry man strikes king just in time to save his life · N656 entry
- Warriors discover in the last moment that it is their own chief they are about to murder by burning · N657 entry
- Life saved by accident – miscellaneous · N659 entry