Fish recovers ring from sea

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Fish recovers ring from sea.

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Italian NovellaRotunda
GreekFox 101
SpanishBoggs FFC XC 69 No. 515
JewishNeuman
India*Thompson-Balys. Cf. L412.1. Woman casts ring into sea.
general *Type 554
general *BP II 19ff.
general *Fb "gjedde" I 440a, "ring" III 61a
general Wünsche (A.) Die Sage vom Ring des Polykrates in der Weltliteratur (Beilage zur Allgemeinen Zeitung, 1893, Nos. 179, 180, 185, 188)
general Chauvin V 17
general Köhler-Bolte II 209
general Clouston Tales I 398ff.
general Saintyves Essais de folklore biblique 402. Irish myth: Cross

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Filed under Fish brings lost object from bottom of sea.

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Fish recovers key from sea Fish recovers lost fish-hook from sea Fish recovers pen from sea Fish recovers lost urn from sea

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Woman casts ring into sea boasting that it is as impossible for her to become poor as for the ring to be found. Ring is found in fish: she becomes poor

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