Unpromising hero (male Cinderella). Usually, but not always, the unpromising hero is also the youngest son

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Unpromising hero (male Cinderella). Usually, but not always, the unpromising hero is also the youngest son.

Reversal of fortune. · Unpromising hero (heroine). · Unpromising hero (heroine). · view the constellation · filed as L101

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Scholars’ trail — 14references

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.

EnglishWells 25 (The Tale of Gamelyn)
Missouri FrenchCarrière
Italian NovellaRotunda
ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 52 No. 32
HawaiiBeckwith Myth 408
N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 327 n. 185
Africa (Fang)Trilles 251f.
general *BP I 183ff.
general *Rank Mythus v. d. Geburt d. Helden
general *Cosquin Contes indiens 494ff.
general Cox 437–462, 519
general M. Bloomfield in Penzer VII x
general *Hdwb. d. Märchens I 184b nn. 13ff.
general Chauvin II 83 No. 9. – Icelandic: *Boberg

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Filed under Unpromising hero (heroine).

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Unpromising hero: aged man

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Unpromising heroine. Usually, but not always, the youngest daughter Unpromising hero given great powers by deity

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