Skillful tailor sews up broken eggs — Mythoi

Motif

Skillful tailor sews up broken eggs.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Persons with extraordinary powers. · Remarkable skill. · view the constellation · filed as F662.1

Filed across the traditions

Africa Weeks Jungle 43.
general *Type 653

Within the index

Filed under Skillful tailor.

1 finer motif beneath it

Birds hatched from broken eggs repaired by skillful tailor have red line around necks. This indicates where eggs were broken

Filed beside it

Woman skillful in sewing Skillful tailor sews together scattered planks in capsizing boat Skillful tailor sews bean together after bean has split from laughing

Carried in tale types

The Four Skillful Brothers · ATU 653 4 recorded variants

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