Runaway cavalry hero tears out limbs of dead trees — Mythoi

Motif

Runaway cavalry hero tears out limbs of dead trees.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Impostures. · Sham prowess. · view the constellation · filed as K1951.2.1

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under 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.

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