Ass falls into water and catches fish in his ear

Motif

Ass falls into water and catches fish in his ear.

Chance and fate. · Lucky accidents. · Other lucky accidents. · Accidental success in hunting or fishing. · view the constellation · filed as N626

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 744.

Within the index

Filed under Accidental success in hunting or fishing.

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