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N680 Lucky accidents – miscellaneous
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- Lucky fool · N680.1 entry
- Series of lucky successes · N680.2 entry
- Husband (lover) arrives home just as wife (mistress) is to marry another · N681 entry
- Prophecy of future greatness fulfilled when hero returns home unknown. Parents serve him · N682 entry
- Stranger accidentally chosen king. Picked up by sacred elephant · N683 entry
- Naked soldier becomes general. Stripped for bathing he takes his place as guard when the king unexpectedly arrives. King invites him to come naked to the castle, where he is chosen as husband by a general's daughter · N684 entry
- Fool passes as wise man by remaining silent · N685 entry
- Hero's (heroine's) identity established as he (she) is on the point of being executed · N686 entry
- Hero unwittingly helps fee's sons: rewarded · N687 entry
- What is in the dish: "Poor Crab". A sham wise man named Crab is put to a test of his powers of divination. He is to tell what is in a covered dish (crabs). In despair he says, "Poor Crab!" and is given credit for knowing · N688 entry
- Objects accidentally picked up used to overawe ogress · N691 entry
- Person reported lost joins unwittingly in search for himself · N692 entry
- Man sent away from battlefield to deliver message the only survivor of battle · N693 entry
- Apparently dead woman revives as she is being prepared for burial. Cf. Type 990 · N694 entry
- Passengers on a boat are terrorized by a cutthroat. He turns courteous and leaves them unharmed · N695 entry
- Fugitive in tree urinates from fright: pursuers think it rain and leave · N696 entry
- Hawk carries off necklace from bathing queen and drops it by lucky girl, who gets reward · N698 entry
- Other lucky accidents · N699 entry