μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.
  • general *Types 571, 1415
Within the index

Filed under Lucky business venture.

1 finer motif beneath it
Progressive lucky bargains. (Opposite of J2081.)
Filed beside it
Object unknown in a country sold for a fortuneFortune from trifling sum sent abroad with merchantKing's example makes merchant wealthy. The king buys shoes for a high price and then has all his dinner guests buy themAbducted princess wishes that she were with rejected suitor; discovers that she isPoor man carries unwittingly in his water jar a large scorpion which brings him fortune
Carried in tale types

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