Boastful fly-killer: "seven at a blow". A tailor who has killed seven flies writes on a placard: "Seven at a blow." He is received as a great warrior

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Boastful fly-killer: "seven at a blow". A tailor who has killed seven flies writes on a placard: "Seven at a blow." He is received as a great warrior.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Impostures. · Sham prowess. · view the constellation · filed as K1951.1

Scholars’ trail — 9references

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.

French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 23
Missouri FrenchCarrière
SpanishEspinosa III Nos. 194f.
India*Thompson-Balys
IndonesiaCoster-Wijsman 73 No. III
PhilippineFansler MAFLS XII 51
general *Type 1640
general *BP I 148ff.
general N. A Indian: *Thompson CColl II 430ff.

Within the index

Filed under Sham warrior.

1 finer motif beneath it

Boastful elephant killer: killed at one blow. Elephant has been poisoned

Filed beside it

Runaway cavalry-hero. When the sham hero goes to war his horse runs away with him. To save himself he grasps a cross from a graveyard and waves it from side to side, putting the enemy to flight Sham-warrior intimidates soldiers with his boasting Boastful coward frightened by conspirators Ordinary man assumes high sounding name and challenges enemy chief to single combat. Latter is frightened into believing him to be of exceptional prowess and desists from attacking the city

Carried in tale types

The Brave Tailor · ATU 16401 recorded variant

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