μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Marvelous runner.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Persons with extraordinary powers. · Other marvelous powers. · view the constellation · filed as F681

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Italian Basile Pentamerone III No. 8
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Hawaii *Beckwith Myth 151, 337f.
  • Tuamotu Stimson MS (T-G. 3/928).
Within the index

Filed under Other marvelous powers.

13 finer motifs beneath it
Marvelous runner keeps leg tied up. To prevent him from running away Marvelous runner outstrips March wind Marvelous runner swift as thought Marvelous runner swift as sight Marvelous runner can run round earth in five minutes Marvelous runner catches wild game on the run Marvelous runner runs backwards Marvelous runner captures two of every wild animal Man who is too heavy for any horse walks faster than horseback riders Marvelous swift plower Marvelous swift mower Runner runs so swiftly that he does not snap the ears of wheat (bend grass) Boy runs so fast snow makes rainbow behind him
Filed beside it
Man can stand all day on one foot Sparks come from man's feet Marvelous jumper Marvelous withstander of cold Body with marvelous heat. Melts snow thirty feet around and serves as fuel for man's companions Remarkable fragrance (odor) of person Man with marvelous voice Man can breathe nine days under water Person with remarkable memory. (Cf. F654.) Wounds inflicted by certain man always fatal Saint passes through closed doors Extraordinary reading ability Marvelous swimmer Marvelous ball player Marvelous juggler Additional marvelous powers

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