Skillful marksman shoots apple from man's head. Tell — Mythoi

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Skillful marksman shoots apple from man's head. Tell.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Persons with extraordinary powers. · Remarkable skill. · view the constellation · filed as F661.3

Filed across the traditions

English Child III 17f., 28
Icelandic Boberg.
general *Hdwb. d. Abergl. s. v. "Meisterschuss Tell"
general Fb "æble" III 1136a

Within the index

Filed under Skillful marksman.

1 finer motif beneath it

Skillful marksman shoots spear through nose-ring

Filed beside it

Skillful marksman shoots meat from giant's hands Skillful marksman shoots pipe from man's mouth Skillful marksman shoots eggs scattered over table Skillful marksman shoots animal (man) through eye Skillful bowman shoots crater of Vesuvius open Skillful marksman throws needles. One enters eye of the other so as to form a straight line Skillful marksman casts lance through ring Skillful marksman grazes ear of sleeping person and awakens him Man shoots pearls from wife's nose-ring Skillful archer uses arrow as boomerang Hero shoots arrow and cuts thread

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