Destructive elephant eats poison man has prepared for himself. Man rewarded

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Destructive elephant eats poison man has prepared for himself. Man rewarded.

Chance and fate. · Lucky accidents. · Other lucky accidents. · Accidental success in hunting or fishing. · view the constellation · filed as N627

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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.

India*Thompson-Balys.

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Filed under Accidental success in hunting or fishing.

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

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