Present from the journey: what you first see — Mythoi

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Present from the journey: what you first see.

Reversal of fortune. · Modesty brings reward. · Modest request best. · view the constellation · filed as L221.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Māori Polynesian Mythology, and Ancient Traditional History of the New Zealand Race , Chapter 2

Cited in the index

general Hdwb. d. Märchens I 606a nn. 80–89.

Within the index

Filed under Modest request: present from the journey. Asked what her father shall bring her as a present, the heroine chooses a modest gift. It is usually a flower but sometimes does not turn out to be such a simple gift after all (golden cloak, golden apple).

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