Remarkable star-gazer. Sees birds in nest in distant tree

Motif

Remarkable star-gazer. Sees birds in nest in distant tree.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Persons with extraordinary powers. · Extraordinary powers of perception. · view the constellation · filed as F642.1

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.
general *Type 653
general BP III 45, *57
general Köhler-Bolte I 298f

Within the index

Filed under Person of remarkable sight. (Cf. X938.)

Filed beside it

Person of remarkable sight finds tracks of swine stolen seven years before his birth Person can see through opaque objects Person sees equally well by night or day Man can see celestial nymphs dancing in divine world One-eyed barber sees thread of silk stretching to sea Person of remarkable sight can see the soul Person sees enormous distance

Carried in tale types

The Four Skillful Brothers · ATU 6534 recorded variants

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