μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Lucky shot with arrow – foot and ear of deer. Deer is scratching ear.

Chance and fate. · Lucky accidents. · Other lucky accidents. · Accidental success in hunting or fishing. · view the constellation · filed as N621

Filed across the traditions
  • Japanese Ikeda.
  • general *Fischer-Bolte 203ff.
  • general *Wesselski Märchen 226 No. 38
Within the index

Filed under Accidental success in hunting or fishing.

1 finer motif beneath it
Arrow accidentally makes shot for which prize is given
Filed beside it
Game killed by jumping on it from above Lucky cast of spear (weapon) Man falls into well and accidentally kills cobra: rewarded Fish jumps into boat of disheartened fisherman Ass falls into water and catches fish in his ear Destructive elephant eats poison man has prepared for himself. Man rewarded
Carried in tale types

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