Unlucky encounter causes treasure-seekers to talk and thus lose treasure

Motif

Unlucky encounter causes treasure-seekers to talk and thus lose treasure.

Chance and fate. · Lucky accidents. · Treasure trove. · Unearthing hidden treasure. · view the constellation · filed as N553.2

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

Finnish-SwedishWessman 78f. Nos. 659, 664–672
DanishKristensen Danske Sagn III (1895) 439ff., 447ff., (1931) 304ff., 307ff.
North CarolinaBrown Collection I 692f.
general *Fb "skat" III 236b

Within the index

Filed under Tabus in effect while treasure is being unearthed.

Filed beside it

Tabu: incontinence while treasure is being raised Treasure finders must not take all of money Tabu: looking around while raising treasure Tabu: fear of threatening animals while treasure is being raised

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