Warriors discover in the last moment that it is their own chief they are about to murder by burning

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Warriors discover in the last moment that it is their own chief they are about to murder by burning.

Chance and fate. · Lucky accidents. · Other lucky accidents. · Life saved by accident. · view the constellation · filed as N657

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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.

IcelandicBoberg.

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Filed under Life saved by accident.

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Pet swan saves self by singing death song. Master about to mistake the swan in the dark for the goose that is to be slaughtered Nut falls and wakes man about to be bitten by snake Child falls from cliff; uninjured Hero catches spear hurled at him and kills serpent with it Waves break caul of abandoned child. He is rescued Angry man strikes king just in time to save his life Husband arrives home just in time to save wife and her father from being burned to death in their home Life saved by accident – miscellaneous

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