Prodigious jump. To fourth story (or the like) — Mythoi

Motif

Prodigious jump. To fourth story (or the like).

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Other extraordinary events. · view the constellation · filed as F1071

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Icelandic *Boberg
India *Thompson-Balys
Philippine (Tinguian) Cole 103
Marquesas Handy 114
Tuamotu Stimson MS (z-G. 13/499).
general Type 530
general Cosquin Contes indiens 333ff.

Within the index

Filed under Other extraordinary events.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Crossing a river with help of a fig tree whose branches touch the opposite bank Jumping over a ditch which is really an ocean

Filed beside it

Sunbeam as support Dice game that lasts for nine years Extraordinary occurrences connected with shoes Man carries extraordinary luggage Man washes clothes blindfolded Extraordinary flights through air Extraordinary descent into ocean Creation of a person by cooperation of skillful men Objects go journeying together Ship wrapped with feather-beds and canvass and pitched (so as to save it) Person walks unceasingly for year Person lives without food or drink for a year (or more) Person concealed in another's body Disintegration: man eats himself up or dismembers himself Hand from heaven writes on wall Object thrown from heaven

Carried in tale types

The Princess on the Glass Mountain · ATU 530 81 recorded variants

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