Cat as sole inheritance

Motif

Cat as sole inheritance.

Chance and fate. · Lucky accidents. · Lucky business ventures. · Lucky business venture. · view the constellation · filed as N411.1.1

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

Missouri FrenchCarrière
ItalianBasile Pentamerone II No. 4.
general *Types 1650, 1651, 545AB
general *BP I 325, II 69ff., III 487

Within the index

Filed under Whittington's cat. A cat in a mouse-infested land without cats sold for a fortune.

Carried in tale types

The Cat Castle · ATU 545A5 recorded variants
The Three Lucky Brothers · ATU 16501 recorded variant

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