Extraordinary companions help hero in suitor tests

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Extraordinary companions help hero in suitor tests.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Persons with extraordinary powers. · Persons with extraordinary powers. · view the constellation · filed as F601.2

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

Italian NovellaRotunda
India*Thompson-Balys
N. Am. IndianThompson CColl II 345ff.
Africa (Fjort)Dennett 74ff. No. 16.
general *Types 513, 514

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

Filed beside it

Skillful companions Extraordinary companions perform hero's tasks Extraordinary companions betray hero Extraordinary companions rescue hero Extraordinary companions are brothers (twins, triplets)Extraordinary companions are transformed animals Animals as extraordinary companions

Carried in tale types

The Land and Water Ship · ATU 513B2 recorded variants
The Strong Woman as Bride (Brunhilde) · ATU 5192 recorded variants

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