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Motif

Lost ring found in fish. (Polycrates.)

Chance and fate. · The ways of luck and fate. · The good gifts of fortune. · view the constellation · filed as N211.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Norwegian Solheim Register 20
  • Italian Novella Rotunda
  • Jewish *Neuman, *Gaster Exempla 210 No. 118, *bin Gorion Born Judas 2d ed. II 106, 344, III 51, 55, 300
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Japanese Ikeda
  • Korean Zong in-Sob 29
  • Philippine Fansler MAFLS XII 7
  • Africa (Gold Coast) Barker and Sinclair 133.
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 635
  • general *Wesselski Mönchslatein 188 No. 146
  • general *Chauvin V 17 No. 10, 141 No. 68, VI 32 No. 202
  • general Fb "ring" IV 328b
  • general Toldo VIII 40
  • general Saintyves "L'Anneau de Polycrate" Revue de l'histoire des religions (1912) 1–32
  • general *Loomis White Magic 121. – Irish: Plummer clxxxiv, *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Lost object returns to its owner.

6 finer motifs beneath it
Lost articles found in interior of fish through virtue of saint Lost pin found in fish Key (to fetters) found in fish Lost sword found in fish Lost trinket found in fish Brooch lost by saint found in fish
Filed beside it
Unavailing attempt to get rid of slippers; they always return Angel helps to find lost pin
Carried in tale types

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