Unpromising hero: aged man.
Reversal of fortune. · Unpromising hero (heroine). · Unpromising hero (heroine). · view the constellation · filed as L101.1
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.
- Irish mythCross
- N. Am. Indian (Zuñi)Benedict II 336.
Within the index
Filed under Unpromising hero (male Cinderella). Usually, but not always, the unpromising hero is also the youngest son.