Skillful marksman — Mythoi

Motif

Skillful marksman.

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

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Icelandic *Boberg
Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "chasseur"
Italian Basile Pentamerone I No. 5, III No. 8, V No. 7
India *Thompson-Balys
Buddhist myth Malalasekera 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 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 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

Filed beside it

Brothers acquire extraordinary skill. Return home and are tested Unskilled man made skillful by saint's blessing Skillful tailor Skillful smith. (Cf. F271.3.) Skillful flayer Skillful barber Skillful axe-man. Cuts down trees with single stroke, and the like Skillful fencer (swordsman) Skillful surgeon Skillful shipbuilder Man can keep together feathers in great wind Skillful painter. Can paint from description of a dream Ingenious carpenter Skillful thief. (Cf. K301.) Skillful tracker Skillful milker

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Lie: the great marksman. (Cf. F661.)

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