45 motifs match “lucky”  ·  back to the chapters

• Magpie refuses to get into ark, sits around outside, jabbering over drowned world, is unlucky. (Cf. A2232.4.) A2542.1.1
• Lucky places for grave. (Cf. D1073.) D1561.1.9
• Pregnant woman craving fish sends husband to heaven after lucky fishhook. (Cf. H936.) H1267
• Cold hands and feet for the dead man. His wife has told him that one tells a dead person by his cold hands and feet. He freezes his feet and hands and lies down for dead. Wolves eat his ass. "Lucky for you that his master is dead!" J2311.7
• Foolish imitation of lucky man. Because one man has had good luck a numskull imitates and thinks he will have equal luck. He is disappointed. J2415
• Bluff: only one tiger; you promised ten. Child (or shepherd) calls out to the small hero (ape, hare) and makes the tiger (ogre) think that he is lucky to escape alive. K1715.2
• Lucky right hand. N113.2.1
• Lucky or unlucky places. N122
• Unlucky places. N122.1
• The auspicious (lucky) day (days). (Cf. N53.) N127
• Thursday as lucky day. N127.3
• Unlucky days ("cross-days"). N128
• Monday and Wednesday as unlucky days. N128.2
• Unlucky to have man in house while cloth is being dyed. N134.1.1
• Thirteen as unlucky number. N135.1
• The luck-bringing shirt. The king is to become lucky when he puts on the shirt of a lucky man. The only man who says that he is lucky has no shirt. N135.3
• Lucky marks on body. N135.4
• Lucky person. N203
• The fourteen lucky daughters. The husband leaves his wife, who has given birth to fourteen girls, thinking he is persecuted by bad luck because of failure to have a son. On the seashore, the girls find precious stones. The wife, now prosperous, finds her husband among beggars. N231
• 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
• Unlucky classes. N256
• Goldsmith unlucky. N256.1
• Unlucky accidents. N300
• Money (treasure) unwittingly given away. Unlucky man given a loaf which is filled with gold exchanges it for another loaf. N351
• Other unlucky accidents. N380
• Additional unlucky accidents. N399
• Lucky accident. N400
• Lucky business venture. N410
• Lucky bargain. N421
• Progressive lucky bargains. (Opposite of J2081.) N421.1
• Unlucky encounter causes treasure-seekers to talk and thus lose treasure. N553.2
• Lucky shot with arrow – foot and ear of deer. Deer is scratching ear. N621
• Lucky cast of spear (weapon). N623
• Lucky cast of spear – animal's mouth pinned shut. N623.1
• Lucky cast of ball: boy throws ball into mouth of hostile hound. Ball carries out entrails. N623.2
• Lucky cast of ball made of human brains – ball sticks in head of enemy. N623.3
• Lucky cast from sling slays hostile queen. N623.4
• Lucky accidents – miscellaneous. N680
• Lucky fool. N680.1
• Series of lucky successes. N680.2
• Hawk carries off necklace from bathing queen and drops it by lucky girl, who gets reward. N698
• Other lucky accidents. N699
• Unlucky for a woman to look on the face of a childless person. T591.2
• The unlucky hunt. X1110.1
• Yellow a lucky color. Z148