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

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

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

JapaneseIkeda.
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

'The Sea Burns · ATU 1920A1 recorded variant

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