μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Husband's magic gift returns to him. Wife gives husband's magic gift (fruit) to lover, who presents it to a dancing girl, who sells it back to the husband.

Chance and fate. · The ways of luck and fate. · The good gifts of fortune. · view the constellation · filed as N212.1

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Money cannot be kept from where it is destined to go. Miser told that his hoard is to go to poor man. He hides it in a trunk and throws it into the sea but it drifts to the house of the poor man who tries in vain to restore it to its owner.

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