Wild man. Man lives alone in wood like a beast

Motif

Wild man. Man lives alone in wood like a beast.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Unusual manner of life. · view the constellation · filed as F567

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Scholars’ trail — 7references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Irish mythCross
Italian NovellaRotunda
JewishNeuman
IndiaThompson-Balys
Africa (Fang)Trilles Proverbs 199.
general Type 502
general *Dickson 113ff.

Within the index

Filed under Unusual manner of life.

1 finer motif beneath it

Wild woman. (Similar to wild man.)

Filed beside it

People of unusual diet People of unusual residence Person never sleeps Women warriors or hunters Celibate peoples Naked tribe. Sun, cold, wind, rain do not harm them Unusual manner of life – miscellaneous

Travels with

Magic wisdom possessed by wild man. (Cf. F567.)Unexpected meeting with wild man. (Cf. F567.)Wild man of noble birth. (Cf. F567.)Wild man as ravisher of women. (Cf. F567.)Disappointed lover becomes a wild man in the woods. (Cf. F567.)

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