Future hero found in boat (basket, bushes). Legends of Moses, Cyrus, Beowulf and others — Mythoi

Motif

Future hero found in boat (basket, bushes). Legends of Moses, Cyrus, Beowulf and others.

Reversal of fortune. · Unpromising hero (heroine). · Types of unpromising heroes (heroines). · view the constellation · filed as L111.2.1

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic *Boberg
Missouri French Carrière
Italian Novella Rotunda
Jewish *Neuman
India Thompson-Balys
Japanese Ikeda.
general *Usener Die Sintfluthsagen (Bonn, 1899) 80ff.
general Hdwb. d. Märchens I s. v. "Aussetzung in Boot"

Within the index

Filed under Foundling hero.

1 finer motif beneath it

Future heroine found in hollow tree (calfshed, house "without door but only window and skylight")

Filed beside it

Future hero found on shore Future hero found on top of a tree Future hero found in wolf den Heroine found in harp

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