Oxen bear dead usurer to gallows to be buried. They are allowed to go where they will

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Oxen bear dead usurer to gallows to be buried. They are allowed to go where they will.

Chance and fate. · The ways of luck and fate. · Crime inevitably comes to light. · view the constellation · filed as N277

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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.

general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 197.

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Filed under Crime inevitably comes to light.

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Murder will out Criminal confesses because he thinks himself accused [First Edition: N276. Thief finally discovered when he pawns stolen goods.]Supernatural voice points out criminal [First Edition: N290. Luck and fate – miscellaneous motifs.]

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