Treasure trove

Motif

Treasure trove.

Chance and fate. · Lucky accidents. · Treasure trove. · Treasure trove. · view the constellation · filed as N500

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Attested across traditions

BuddhistThe Jataka, or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births, Book I receipt
“he went to the fore-st and buried his riches at a certain spot” uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

BuddhistThe Jataka, or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births, Book I

Scholars’ trail — 14references

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.

NorwegianSolheim Register 20
Irish myth*Cross
LivonianLoorits FFC LXVI 69ff. Nos. 199–221
German**Winter Die deutsche Schatzsage
Missouri FrenchCarrière
ChineseGraham.
general **Norlind Skattsägner (bibliography 67f.)
general **Kittredge Witchcraft 204ff., 516ff.
general *Fb "skat" III 234ff.
general *Wehrhan 80f.
general RTP XIV 71, 568, XVIII 418, XIX 306
general *S. Hirschberg Schatzglaube und Totenglaube (Breslau, 1934)
general **Hurley WF X 197–216. – Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn III (1895) 419ff., (1931) 293ff., A. Olrik Nordisk Aandsliv (Copenhagen, 1907) 8–87
general U.S. (Texas): *Dobie Coronado's Children

Within the index

Travels with

Tax on treasure trove. (Cf. N500.)

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