μῦθοι Mythoi
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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.

  • Irish mythCross
  • ItalianBasile Pentamerone V No. 7.
Within the index

Filed under Remarkable skill.

1 finer motif beneath it
Rapid boat-builder can build boat in twinkling of an eye
Filed beside it
Brothers acquire extraordinary skill. Return home and are testedUnskilled man made skillful by saint's blessingSkillful marksmanSkillful tailorSkillful smith. (Cf. F271.3.)Skillful flayerSkillful barberSkillful axe-man. Cuts down trees with single stroke, and the likeSkillful fencer (swordsman)Skillful surgeonMan can keep together feathers in great windSkillful painter. Can paint from description of a dreamIngenious carpenterSkillful thief. (Cf. K301.)Skillful trackerSkillful milker

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