The widow's meal. King upbraids wind for blowing away a poor widow's last cup of meal. Finds that the wind has saved a ship full of people by that very act. The king is humbled

Motif

The widow's meal. King upbraids wind for blowing away a poor widow's last cup of meal. Finds that the wind has saved a ship full of people by that very act. The king is humbled.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Choices. · Gains and losses. · Choices: small inconvenience, large gain. · view the constellation · filed as J355.1

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Jewishbin Gorion Born Judas III 67, *301, *Neuman.
general **Schiller Anthropos XII–XIII 513
general DeVries FFC LXXIII 324ff.

Within the index

Filed under Slight inconvenience in weather, large gain.

Carried in tale types

The Widow's Flour · ATU 759C1 recorded variant

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