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''He floated on water<br />
''Til old Pharaoh's daughter<br />
''She fished him -- she says -- from that stream.''|"It Ain't Necessarily So"|from ''[[Porgy and Bess]]''}}
An infant is saved from some calamity by being [[Parental Abandonment|cast into the hands of Fate by his parents]], whose lives are sometimes claimed by the same calamity. Fate, not wanting to have to rear a kid, promptly deposits the young hero with a family (usually poor and humble) who will raise him up to be good, just, noble and strong. He remains ignorant of his true heritage except perhaps for [[Orphan's Plot Trinket|some trinket]] -- a ring or maybe a pendant, or sometimes a distinctive birthmark -- which can identify him to someone who knew his parents.
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Also known as a [[Foundling Tale]]. Contrast with [[Cinderella Circumstances]], [[Changeling Tale]] (which is the [[Inverted Trope|inverse]] of this trope).
See also [[Changeling Fantasy]]. Compare [[Door
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