Skillful marksman grazes ear of sleeping person and awakens him — Mythoi

Motif

Skillful marksman grazes ear of sleeping person and awakens him.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Persons with extraordinary powers. · Remarkable skill. · view the constellation · filed as F661.9

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella Rotunda.

Within the index

Filed under Skillful marksman.

1 finer motif beneath it

Husband shoots arrows, barely missing wife's ears

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 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 Man shoots pearls from wife's nose-ring Skillful archer uses arrow as boomerang Hero shoots arrow and cuts thread

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