Fortune from trifling sum sent abroad with merchant — Mythoi

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Fortune from trifling sum sent abroad with merchant.

Chance and fate. · Lucky accidents. · Lucky business ventures. · Lucky business venture. · view the constellation · filed as N412

Cited in the index

general *Chauvin VI 65 No. 233 n. 1.

Within the index

Filed under Lucky business venture.

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Object unknown in a country sold for a fortune King's example makes merchant wealthy. The king buys shoes for a high price and then has all his dinner guests buy them Lucky bargain Abducted princess wishes that she were with rejected suitor; discovers that she is Poor man carries unwittingly in his water jar a large scorpion which brings him fortune

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