Whittington's cat. A cat in a mouse-infested land without cats sold for a fortune.
Chance and fate. · Lucky accidents. · Lucky business ventures. · Lucky business venture. · view the constellation · filed as N411.1
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 5references
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.
- Italian NovellaRotunda.
- general *Types 1650, 1651
- general *BP II 69ff.
- general *Fb "kat" II 108, IV 255b, "mus" II 632a
- general *Brueyre RTP III 36
Within the index
Filed under Object unknown in a country sold for a fortune.
1 finer motif beneath it
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Carried in tale types
- Whittington's Cat · ATU 16511 recorded variant