Brothers acquire extraordinary skill. Return home and are tested

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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

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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.

ItalianBasile Pentamerone V No. 7
India*Thompson-Balys
ChineseGraham.
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 65332 recorded variants
Tasks for a Thief (previously Theft of Dog, Horse, Sheet, or Ring) · ATU 1525A2 recorded variants
The Three Agile Brothers · ATU 6541 recorded variant

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