μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

The early pupil finds the gold. An innkeeper hears that education makes one rich and enters school. He is scolded for coming late. He comes very early and in twilight finds a purse of gold.

Chance and fate. · Lucky accidents. · Other lucky accidents. · Accidental acquisition of treasure or money. · view the constellation · filed as N633

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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.

  • LithuanianBalys Index No. 1665*
  • RussianAndrejev No. 1665*
  • LivonianLoorits FFC LXVI No. 1645(1).
  • general Type 1645*
Within the index

Filed under Accidental acquisition of treasure or money.

Filed beside it
The triple tax. A poet is given by the king the right to demand a coin of the first hunchback he meets, from the first man of a certain name, and from the first man of a certain city. He sees a hunchback and demands the coin. A quarrel arises in which it appears that the hunchback also has the required name and residence. With each revelation the poet demands a new coin
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