Salt in saltless land sold for fortune — Mythoi

Motif

Salt in saltless land sold for fortune.

Chance and fate. · Lucky accidents. · Lucky business ventures. · Lucky business venture. · view the constellation · filed as N411.4

Filed across the traditions

Russian Andrejev No. 1651*
India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Object unknown in a country sold for a fortune.

Filed beside it

Whittington's cat. A cat in a mouse-infested land without cats sold for a fortune Sickle sold for fortune in land without sickles Fortune from informing foreign king of use of saddle, bridle, and stirrups Sandalwood merchant sells his product at high price in land lacking sandalwood

Carried in tale types

Fortune in Salt · ATU 1651A 1 recorded variant

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