Skillful marksman shoots eggs scattered over table — Mythoi

Motif

Skillful marksman shoots eggs scattered over table.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Persons with extraordinary powers. · Remarkable skill. · view the constellation · filed as F661.4

Cited in the index

general *Type 653.

Within the index

Filed under Skillful marksman.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Archer shoots eggs through middle Archer shoots and marks egg in nest without breaking it or disturbing other eggs Skillful marksman can hit egg from great distance

Filed beside it

Skillful marksman shoots meat from giant's hands Skillful marksman shoots pipe from man's mouth Skillful marksman shoots apple from man's head. Tell 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

Carried in tale types

The Four Skillful Brothers · ATU 653 4 recorded variants

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