μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • general *Type 1640
  • general *BP I 148ff.
Within the index

Filed under Sham warrior.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Sham-warrior boasts and is employed at palaceTiger intimidated by boasting of the sham-warrior
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 warriorRunaway 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 flightBoastful coward frightened by conspiratorsOrdinary 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
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