μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Fortune of the lucky wife. A luckless man becomes successful in all his undertakings when he marries a lucky woman and lives by her luck.

Chance and fate. · The ways of luck and fate. · Persistent bad luck. · view the constellation · filed as N251.5

Filed across the traditions
  • Lithuanian Balys Index No. 737B*.
Within the index

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.

Filed beside it
Man captured by pirates is maimed, crippled, blinded. He is patient through it all. Finally he is elected ruler by his dead master's subjects Man who aspires to greater wealth loses all. When he is about to be rewarded by king the latter dies Man who loses fortune marries widow of his rich master. (Cf. N227.) Travelers pursued by misfortune The 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 fortunate Misfortune pursues farmer
Carried in tale types

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