• 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

all 104 in the index →

• ATU 1651A Fortune in Salt
• ATU 460A The Journey to God (Fortune) (previously The Journey to God to Receive Reward)
• ATU 460B The Journey in Search of Fortune
• ATU 735 The Rich Man's and the Poor Man's Fortune
• ATU 923B The Princess Who Was Responsible for her Own Fortune
• ATU 938A Misfortunes in Youth
• ATU 945A* Money and Fortune