Unpromising heroine. Usually, but not always, the youngest daughter — Mythoi

Motif

Unpromising heroine. Usually, but not always, the youngest daughter.

Reversal of fortune. · Unpromising hero (heroine). · Unpromising hero (heroine). · view the constellation · filed as L102

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "merle"
Missouri French Carrière: Italian Novella: *Rotunda
Tuamotu Stimson MS (z-G. 13/346)
N. Am. Indian (Zuñi) Benedict II 336.
general See references to L50. – *BP I 165ff.
general **Cox passim

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Filed under Unpromising hero (heroine).

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Unpromising hero (male Cinderella). Usually, but not always, the unpromising hero is also the youngest son Unpromising hero given great powers by deity

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