Curse on treasure. Finder or owner to have bad luck

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Curse on treasure. Finder or owner to have bad luck.

Chance and fate. · Lucky accidents. · Treasure trove. · Treasure trove – miscellaneous motifs. · view the constellation · filed as N591

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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.

Icelandic*Boberg
Africa (Ekoi)Talbot 185.
general *Fb "skat" III 234b, 235b
general N. Am. Indian (Wampanoag): Knight JAFL XXXVIII 134

Within the index

Filed under Treasure trove – miscellaneous motifs.

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N591. Treasure from striking animal or person and disenchanting him Helper in hiding treasure killed in order that nobody may ever find it Discovery of rich mine Discovery of underground oil pools

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