The constellation
Z210 Brothers as heroes
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- Warriors identically equipped (brothers) · Z210.0.1 entry
- Lodge-Boy and Thrown-Away as joint adventurers. Of brothers (sometimes twins taken from body of slain mother) one is abandoned and becomes wild. Later he joins his brother · Z210.1 entry
- Dreadnaughts. Brothers deliberately seek dangers they have been warned against. Triumph · Z211 entry
- Hero "son of seven mothers". Seven mothers each with a child imprisoned. Six eat their children to keep from starving. Seventh does not. He rescues all the mothers and becomes hero · Z215 entry
- Supernatural origin of hero: magic conception. (Cf. T510.) · Z216 entry
- Eldest brother as hero · Z221 entry