Extraordinary companions. A group of men with extraordinary powers travel together.
Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Persons with extraordinary powers. · Persons with extraordinary powers. · view the constellation · filed as F601
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- Icelandic Boberg
- Missouri French Carrière
- Italian Basile Pentamerone I No. 5, Rotunda
- Buriat Holmberg Siberian 428
- India *Thompson-Balys
- Indonesian De Vries Nederlandsche Tijdschrift voor Volkskunde (1924) 97ff.
- Korean Zong in-Sob 163f.
- Chinese Graham
- Japanese Ikeda
- Philippine Fansler MAFLS XII 27, 114, 128, 433
- N. Am. Indian *Thompson CColl II 334ff., 345ff.
- general *Types 301B, 513, 514, 571
- general *BP II 79, 95
- general *Benfey *Kleinere Schriften III 94
- general *Köhler-Bolte I 601 s. v. "Gefährten"
- general *Cosquin Contes indiens 431ff.
- general *Kittredge Arthur and Garlagon 226 n. 3
- general Jacobs's list s. v. "Extraordinary Companions"
- general Alphabet No. 693
- general *Chauvin VII 125 No. 392. – Irish myth: *Cross
- general Koryak, Mongol-Turk: Jochelson JE VI 363
Carried in tale types
- Six Go through the Whole World · ATU 513A 12 recorded variants
- The Fight on the Bridge · ATU 300A 2 recorded variants
- The Three Stolen Princesses · ATU 301 2 recorded variants
- The Land and Water Ship · ATU 513B 2 recorded variants
- Life Dependent on a Sword (previously Hero with Life Dependent on his Sword) · ATU 302B 1 recorded variant
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