104 motifs match “fortune” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• Culture hero's (divinity's) expected return. Divinity or hero is expected to return at the proper time and rescue his people from their misfortunes. Often joined with A571. A580
• Origin of sickness and misfortune: monstrous births from brother-sister incestuous union. A1337.0.7
• Inequalities of fortune among men, otherwise the work of the world will not go on. A1599.8
• Fortune learned from serpent. B161.2
• Tabu: offending goddess of fortune. C50.1
• The one compulsory thing. Unless one does this one thing, misfortune comes. (Sometimes one is under magic compulsion.) C650
• Injunction: sleep where night overtakes you. Otherwise misfortune will come. C683
• Injunction: to give sample of food to dog before eating. Misfortune follows failure to do so. C685
• Overweening pride in good fortune forbidden. Man proud that he and his clan have never known unhappiness or want swallowed up by earth. C770.1
• Killing albatross causes misfortune to follow killer. C841.10.1
• Loss of fortune for breaking tabu. C930
• Loss of fortune for breaking tabu – miscellaneous. C939
• Fortune told by cutting sand. D1812.3.2
• Fortune-telling dream induced by sleeping in extraordinary place (position). D1812.3.3.2
• Advice from magician (fortune-teller, etc.). (Cf. D1711, D1810.0.2, D1817.) D1814.1
• Meeting ghost causes misfortune. E265
• Ghost haunts place of great accident or misfortune. E275
• Non-malevolent ghost haunts scene of former misfortune, crime, or tragedy. (C.f. E336, E337, E338, E339.) E334
• Ghost as omen of calamity or ill fortune. E575
• Dwelling of Fortune on lofty mountain. F132.2
• Impoverished fairy seeks fortune among mortals. F393.3
• Madness from loss of fortune. F1041.8.11
• Fairy-like witch marries man and causes him misfortune. G264.4
• Riddle: how far is it from happiness to misfortune? H685
• How far is it from happiness to misfortune? One day; yesterday I was herdsman and now I am abbot. (Cf. H561.2.) H685.1
• Quest to God for fortune. H1263
• Quest to Fortune to seek fortune. H1281
• Quest for the anger of God. Man is so fortunate that people say that he has everything but the anger of God. He seeks it and finds it with much misfortune. H1376.3.1
• Fortune, Intellect, Knowledge, and Health dispute as to which is the greatest. J461.1.2
• Noblemen being ruined by long lawsuit decide wisely to join their families in marriage and save their fortunes. J552.2
• Consolation for misfortune found in food. J861
• Poor man consoles self by thinking of misfortunes of rich. J883
• Consolation in misfortune – miscellaneous. J890
• Consolation: spiritual recompense for temporal misfortune. J893
• The eunuch's defense. Reproached with his mutilation, the eunuch says that his ill fortune is no shame. The only shame is to merit what you suffer. J1471
• Wife by cleverness wins back fortune overbearing husband has foolishly lost and humbles him. J1545.6
• "Thank Fortune I'm out of business." Philosopher loses all his wealth at sea. Thanks Fortune for taking him out of business. Can now devote his life to philosophy. J2569
• "Thank Fortune it wasn't a melon." Man contends that melons should not grow on slender vines but on tall trees. He is hit on the nose by a falling nut. Is thankful it wasn't a melon. J2571
• Fortune to go to direction cat jumps. King will give wealth to person toward whom the cat jumps. Clever woman has brought mouse along and thus entices the cat. K2.1
• Wife takes mistress's place in husband's bed. The husband, unaware of the substitution, asks his friends to share his good fortune. K1843.2.3
• Banshees as portents of misfortune. M301.6.1
• Prophecy of general misfortune to newborn child. M340.3
• Prophecy of great misfortune. M340.6
• Prophecy of misfortune for prince avoided successfully in one respect. M391.1.1
• Hero makes fortune through gambling. N1.1
• Conquering gambler. Bankrupt gambler gets supernatural power and wins back his fortune. N1.2
• Wager: it is an auspicious day. In spite of all misfortunes wagerer insists that he is right. (Cf. N127.) N53
• Wager: fortune made from capital or from working at vocation. Test: money given to workman is stolen or lost; lead for his work given him is lent to fisherman who rewards him with a fish in which is a diamond. N66
• Fortune comes to deserving and undeserving. N102
• Fortune has one eye, watches over everybody. N111.2.1.1
• Fortune's wheel. N111.3
• Fortune's wheel turned by dead king in mountain. N111.3.1
• Fortune with pair of scales in his hands weighs man's balance. N111.3.2
• Fortune's dealings with men. N111.4
• Man thanks earth for saving his life; had he fallen into well he would have blamed Fortune. N111.4.1
• Good fortune resides in an object. N113.1
• Fortune as an old woman. N114
• Unprotected son makes fortune; protected son has bad luck. N171
• Prodigal as favorite of fortune. N172
• Disagreeable and disliked youth as favorite of Fortune. N173
• Fortunes of the rich man and of the poor man. The Fortune of the rich brother tells the poor brother to seek his luck under a bush. The poor man goes there and Fortune tells him to become a merchant. He becomes rich. N181
• The good gifts of fortune. N200
• Wishes for good fortune realized. N202
• First objects picked up bring fortune. N222
• Person pursued by misfortune. (Placidas, Eustacius.) His goods are destroyed, his wife carried off by a ship captain and his children by animals. N251
• Man who loses fortune marries widow of his rich master. (Cf. N227.) N251.3
• Travelers pursued by misfortune. N251.4
• Fortune of the lucky wife. A luckless man becomes successful in all his undertakings when he marries a lucky woman and lives by her luck. N251.5
• Misfortune pursues farmer. N251.7
• Messengers announce successive misfortunes. N252
• Messengers announce successive misfortunes to warrior as he sets out for war. Tells of death of father, mother, brother, and sister, but he refuses to turn back. N252.1
• Safety in shadow of wall. After many misfortunes the man is apparently safe. The wall falls on him. N253
• Escape from one misfortune into worse. N255
• Person has successive misfortunes while making plans because he forgets to say, "If God wills." (Cf. G224.1, J1217.1.) N385.1
• Mistake in interpreting prophecy (oracle) brings misfortune. N398
• Object unknown in a country sold for a fortune. N411
• Whittington's cat. A cat in a mouse-infested land without cats sold for a fortune. N411.1
• Sickle sold for fortune in land without sickles. N411.2
• Fortune from informing foreign king of use of saddle, bridle, and stirrups. N411.3
• Salt in saltless land sold for fortune. N411.4
• Fortune from trifling sum sent abroad with merchant. N412
• Poor man carries unwittingly in his water jar a large scorpion which brings him fortune. N426
• Man ready to kill self hears voice directing him to buried fortune. N545.2
• 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. N699.5
• Deserted daughter's good fortune discovered by accident. N732.2
• Daughter's good fortune accidentally discovered by father who has become a beggar. N732.2.1
• Amasser of largest fortune to be king. P11.4.2
• Just king brings good fortune upon people. P12.6
• Foolishness brings a man to death, quiet calm to fortune. Q6.1
• Faithfulness of married couple in misfortune. T215
• Misfortune with oneself to blame the hardest. U160
• Misfortune ascribed to breaking Sabbath. V71.2
• Fasting on "Golden Fridays" as charm against certain misfortunes. V73.5
• Image blamed by suppliant for misfortunes. V123
• Heathen beats his god because of misfortune. (Cf. V123.) V381
• Hindu drinks water by mistake from Mohammedan's vessel: his fortune turns to evil. V383.2
• Equanimity of the enslaved unfortunate. Does not complain when beset by a series of misfortunes. (Cf. N251.1.) W25.1
• Profligate wastes entire fortune before beginning his own adventures. W131.1
• Priest uses fortune dishonestly made to erect monuments to himself. W157.1
• Jokes on fortune-tellers. X461