Ingenious carpenter — Mythoi

Motif

Ingenious carpenter.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Persons with extraordinary powers. · Remarkable skill. · view the constellation · filed as F675

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Jewish Neuman.
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 son Moonmakers make new moon Carpenter constructs house of sandalwood which will go wherever owner commands Skillful carpenter constructs large palace overnight

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 surgeon Skillful shipbuilder Man can keep together feathers in great wind Skillful painter. Can paint from description of a dream Skillful thief. (Cf. K301.) Skillful tracker Skillful milker

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