Childless old couple adopt hero.
Chance and fate. · Helpers. · Human helpers. · view the constellation · filed as N825.1
Motif
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 Malone: PMLA XLIII 399.