Boastful coward frightened by conspirators — Mythoi

Motif

Boastful coward frightened by conspirators.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Impostures. · Sham prowess. · view the constellation · filed as K1951.4

Cited in the index

general N. Am. Indian (Cheyenne): Kroeber JAFL XIII 172. Cf. Falstaff in Shakespeare's Henry IV part I.

Within the index

Filed under 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 warrior 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 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

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