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Task: recovering lost ring from sea.

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Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Greek Fox 101 (Theseus)
  • Japanese Ikeda
  • Cape Verde Islands Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 280 No. 91.
  • general *Types 513, 554
  • general *Saintyves Essais 381
  • general BP I 134ff., II 19ff.
  • general *Fb "guldring"
Within the index

Filed under Task: recovering lost object from sea.

1 finer motif beneath it
Test: recovering ring from water
Filed beside it
Task: recovering lost key from sea Task: recovering strap from sea Task: recovering pen from sea Task: recovering lost fish-hook. Done by Sea-king Task: recovering cooking-spit from sea Task: recovering crown from sea

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