Dropped ball (basket) leads to adventures when recovery is attempted — Mythoi

Motif

Dropped ball (basket) leads to adventures when recovery is attempted.

Chance and fate. · Accidental encounters. · Experiences leading to adventures. · view the constellation · filed as N777

Filed across the traditions

Italian Basile Pentamerone III No. 10 (Type 440).

Within the index

Filed under Experiences leading to adventures.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Adventures encountered in running after cotton being blown away by wind Bucket dropped into well leads to adventures Flax dropped into well leads to adventures Spindle dropped into well leads to adventures

Filed beside it

Feast as occasion for the beginning of adventures or the arrival of questers King (prince) lost on hunt has adventures Parting at crossroads to go on adventures Adventure from following animal to cave (lower world) Adventures from pursuing enchanted animal (hind, boar, bird). (Guiding Beast.) Race with fairies leads to adventures Light seen from tree lodging place at night leads to adventures Taking refuge in a grave leads to adventure Hero embarks in rudderless boat Mother's parting gift to adventuring son: the two loaves of bread. One for hunger, one for overeating Broken vessel (calabash, etc.) to be mended leads to adventure Shouting after bathing: adventures follow Adventures from seeking water Anchor catching in oratory of submarine monastery leads to adventures Incidents when wife takes food to husband in field or forest Adventures from pursuing object carried off by river

Carried in tale types

The Kind and the Unkind Girls (previously The Spinning-Women by the Spring · ATU 480 12 recorded variants

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