The Golden Goose, and other mythical adventures of making money
There are many ways in myth people have made inexaustible amounts of money, in myth.
The most famous is the Golden Goose. This is a Russian story that was collected by the Brother Grimm, The Golden goose lays golden eggs, and stuff in some stories, and attracts greed, from people who want it.
Also Aesop's Fables, and Jack and the Beanstalk have a golden goose, style creature laying golden eggs, A Egyptian God is said to have had some thing to do with Golden geese laying eggs.
Another is the Midas touch story of gold. This story again tell of greed, hurting the victory of having gold, of the king tirning everything he touches to gold.
ALi Baba found some treasure that was almost inexaustible
The Gold or treasure at the end of the rainbow myth
Trolls in Scandinavian myths are said to have plenty of gold,
The tooth fairy
Gnomes also have treasure in legends and lepricons
Real Pirates and unreal goblins, have some gold legends or computer games anout them about treasure
There are some stories in the Bible, about boxes and treasure and rewards
Dick Whittington and the streets of London being paved with gold.
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