Old man burns self with gunpowder, and then burns himself worse when he pours hot water over his body

Motif

Old man burns self with gunpowder, and then burns himself worse when he pours hot water over his body.

Chance and fate. · The ways of luck and fate. · Persistent bad luck. · view the constellation · filed as N255.6

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Escape from one misfortune into worse.

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