μῦθοι Mythoi
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Feast for those who have not known sorrow. Dying Alexander's letter to his mother orders such a feast. No one comes.

Chance and fate. · The ways of luck and fate. · Nature of luck and fate. · Changing of luck or fate. · view the constellation · filed as N135.3.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • general *Köhler-Bolte I 579
  • general Köhler Aufsätze 130.
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Filed under The luck-bringing shirt. The king is to become lucky when he puts on the shirt of a lucky man. The only man who says that he is lucky has no shirt.

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