Extraordinary companions perform hero's tasks — Mythoi

Motif

Extraordinary companions perform hero's tasks.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Persons with extraordinary powers. · Persons with extraordinary powers. · view the constellation · filed as F601.1

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
India Thompson-Balys
Korean Zong in-Sob 163ff.
N. Am. Indian Thompson CColl II 345ff.
general *Types 513, 514

Within the index

Filed under Extraordinary companions. A group of men with extraordinary powers travel together.

Filed beside it

Skillful companions Extraordinary companions help hero in suitor tests Extraordinary companions betray hero Extraordinary companions rescue hero Extraordinary companions are brothers (twins, triplets) Extraordinary companions are transformed animals Animals as extraordinary companions

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