Exile returns and succeeds — Mythoi

Motif

Exile returns and succeeds.

Reversal of fortune. · Unpromising hero (heroine). · Types of unpromising heroes (heroines). · view the constellation · filed as L111.1

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Missouri French Carrière
Italian Novella *Rotunda
India *Thompson-Balys.
general **A. Nutt FLR IV 1ff.
general *Hibbard 111 n. 6
general Boccaccio Decameron II No. 8 (Lee 39)
general v. Hahn Sagenwissenschaftliche Studien 341ff.
general *Dickson 42 n. 42

Within the index

Filed under Hero (heroine) of unpromising origin.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Banished youth becomes mighty king Fugitive bull-calf returns when grown and defeats his father

Filed beside it

Foundling hero Widow's son as hero Orphan hero Bastard hero Anchorite's son as hero Future hero (heroine) raised by animal Heroes sons of wife not favorite of king Hero of story neglected grandson of raja Unpromising fourth son succeeds

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Return of the hero. (Cf. L111.1.)

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