Man in despair preparing to hang himself finds treasure in the tree (beam).
Chance and fate. · Lucky accidents. · Treasure trove. · Discovery of treasure. · view the constellation · filed as N545.1
Motif
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.
- LithuanianBalys Index No. 3623
- Italian Novella*Rotunda.
Carried in tale types
- The Treasure Behind the Nail (previously The Treasure of the Hanging Man) · ATU 910D1 recorded variant