μῦθοι Mythoi
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  • LithuanianBalys Index No. 737B*.
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Filed under Person pursued by misfortune. (Placidas, Eustacius.) His goods are destroyed, his wife carried off by a ship captain and his children by animals.

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Man captured by pirates is maimed, crippled, blinded. He is patient through it all. Finally he is elected ruler by his dead master's subjectsMan who aspires to greater wealth loses all. When he is about to be rewarded by king the latter diesMan who loses fortune marries widow of his rich master. (Cf. N227.)Travelers pursued by misfortuneThe luckless son and his envious father. Seeing a luck-bringing animal at his son's house, the wizard father orders it to be destroyed, but the grandchildren eat of its meat and become fortunateMisfortune pursues farmer
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