μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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.

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

Cited in the index
  • general *Type 844
  • general **Köhler Aufsätze 119ff.
  • general H. C. Andersen's "Lykkens Galocher"
  • general Edwin Markham's "The Shoes of Fortune."
Within the index

Filed under Objects effect change of luck.

1 finer motif beneath it
Feast for those who have not known sorrow. Dying Alexander's letter to his mother orders such a feast. No one comes
Filed beside it
Thirteen as unlucky number Possession of money brings luck. Nothing escapes a mouse as long as she has in her hole a purse of money Lucky marks on body
Carried in tale types

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