μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • Irish myth*Cross.
Within the index

Filed under Skillful marksman.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Skillful marksman throws rushes into a curtain. The first remains and each following one lodges in the one before and remains attached to itSkillful marksman throws swords and scabbards so that swords are sheathed in airOne arrow shot into end of last one to make rope of arrows
Filed beside it
Skillful marksman shoots meat from giant's handsSkillful marksman shoots pipe from man's mouthSkillful marksman shoots apple from man's head. TellSkillful marksman shoots eggs scattered over tableSkillful marksman shoots animal (man) through eyeSkillful bowman shoots crater of Vesuvius openSkillful marksman casts lance through ringSkillful marksman grazes ear of sleeping person and awakens himMan shoots pearls from wife's nose-ringSkillful archer uses arrow as boomerangHero shoots arrow and cuts thread

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