μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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 myth*Cross
  • JewishNeuman.
  • general Penzer III 282--4, 296--300
Within the index

Filed under Remarkable skill.

4 finer motifs beneath it
King makes a wooden peacock machine for his sonMoonmakers make new moonCarpenter constructs house of sandalwood which will go wherever owner commandsSkillful carpenter constructs large palace overnight
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 surgeonSkillful shipbuilderMan can keep together feathers in great windSkillful painter. Can paint from description of a dreamSkillful thief. (Cf. K301.)Skillful trackerSkillful milker

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