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

Motif

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.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Impostures. · Sham prowess. · view the constellation · filed as K1951.2

Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

Missouri FrenchCarrière
India*Thompson-Balys
N. Am. Indian*Thompson CColl II 430ff.
general *Type 1640
general *BP I 148ff.

Within the index

Filed under Sham warrior.

1 finer motif beneath it

Runaway cavalry hero tears out limbs of dead trees

Filed beside it

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 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 16402 recorded variants

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