Broken vessel (calabash, etc.) to be mended leads to adventure

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Broken vessel (calabash, etc.) to be mended leads to adventure.

Chance and fate. · Accidental encounters. · Experiences leading to adventures. · view the constellation · filed as N783

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.

general Africa (Guinea Coast): Trautmann La Litterature à la Côte des Esclaves (Paris, 1927), West Africa: Travélé Proverbes et contes Bambara (Paris, 1923) 205ff., No. 66, Frobenius Atlantis VIII 274ff. No. 120.

Within the index

Filed under Experiences leading to adventures.

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

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