Skillful fencer keeps sword dry in rain. Swings it so fast

Motif

Skillful fencer keeps sword dry in rain. Swings it so fast.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Persons with extraordinary powers. · Remarkable skill. · view the constellation · filed as F667.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

general *Type 654
general *BP III 10ff.

Within the index

Filed under Skillful fencer (swordsman).

Filed beside it

Man able to strike every arrow with his sword and reduce it to splinters Expert swordsman cuts clothes bag in two. (Cf. F611.3.3.1)

Carried in tale types

The Three Agile Brothers · ATU 6542 recorded variants

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