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

Motif

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

Cited in the index

general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 197.

Within the index

Filed under Crime inevitably comes to light.

Filed beside it

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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