Brothers acquire extraordinary skill. Return home and are tested — Mythoi

Motif

Brothers acquire extraordinary skill. Return home and are tested.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Persons with extraordinary powers. · Remarkable skill. · view the constellation · filed as F660.1

Filed across the traditions

Italian Basile Pentamerone V No. 7
India *Thompson-Balys
Chinese Graham.
general *Types 653, 654, 1525
general *BP III 10, 45ff., 379ff., 390 n. 1

Within the index

Filed under Remarkable skill.

Filed beside it

Unskilled man made skillful by saint's blessing Skillful marksman Skillful tailor Skillful smith. (Cf. F271.3.) Skillful flayer Skillful barber Skillful axe-man. Cuts down trees with single stroke, and the like Skillful fencer (swordsman) Skillful surgeon Skillful shipbuilder Man can keep together feathers in great wind Skillful painter. Can paint from description of a dream Ingenious carpenter Skillful thief. (Cf. K301.) Skillful tracker Skillful milker

Carried in tale types

The Four Skillful Brothers · ATU 653 32 recorded variants
Tasks for a Thief (previously Theft of Dog, Horse, Sheet, or Ring) · ATU 1525A 2 recorded variants
The Three Agile Brothers · ATU 654 1 recorded variant

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