μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 9references

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
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "chasseur"
  • ItalianBasile Pentamerone I No. 5, III No. 8, V No. 7
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 1071.
  • general *Types 304, 653
  • general *BP II 503ff., III 45ff.
  • general Fb "skytte" III 350a
Within the index

Filed under Remarkable skill.

12 finer motifs beneath 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 throws needles. One enters eye of the other so as to form a straight lineSkillful 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
Filed beside it
Brothers acquire extraordinary skill. Return home and are testedUnskilled man made skillful by saint's blessingSkillful tailorSkillful smith. (Cf. F271.3.)Skillful flayerSkillful barberSkillful axe-man. Cuts down trees with single stroke, and the likeSkillful fencer (swordsman)Skillful surgeonSkillful shipbuilderMan can keep together feathers in great windSkillful painter. Can paint from description of a dreamIngenious carpenterSkillful thief. (Cf. K301.)Skillful trackerSkillful milker
Travels with
Lie: the great marksman. (Cf. F661.)

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