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Motif

Boy while cutting trees comes to one which happens to be bound up with the life of an ogre. Ogre bribes him with large fortune not to cut tree.

Chance and fate. · Lucky accidents. · Other lucky accidents. · Lucky accidents – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as N699.5

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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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
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Filed under Other lucky accidents.

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Father and brother accidentally return home just as they are most needed in fightKing's son comes home just at his father's funeral, when the heritage has to be dividedCompanions arrive as hero is about to be killedOrphan gets wife because swollen creek prevents marriage to someone elseOverheard wish is realized
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