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Motifs
- The devil takes service with a farmer in return for the bread he stole. Punishes the evil landowner and makes his master prosperous. G303.9.3.1.1
- Impoverished father begs from his prosperous daughter whom he has made to marry a poor man. L432.2.1
- Men too prosperous (happy): things are made more difficult. L482
- 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
- Bad luck banished and freed. The poor man in some way banishes his bad luck and becomes prosperous. Out of envy his rich brother sets it free; it then follows him. N250.4
- Fasting to secure a prosperous journey. V73.4