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Skillful surgeon.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Persons with extraordinary powers. · Remarkable skill. · view the constellation · filed as F668

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Chinese Graham.
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Filed under Remarkable skill.

6 finer motifs beneath it
Skillful physician Skillful surgeon removes and replaces vital organs. (Cf. X1721.2.) Skillful surgeon removes speck from midge's eye. Does it with one stroke without injuring midge Man can transplant feather from one bird to another Skillful surgeon can tell by whom wound was inflicted New arm made from another man's arm bone
Filed beside it
Brothers acquire extraordinary skill. Return home and are tested Unskilled man made skillful by saint's blessing Skillful marksman 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 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

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