Widow's son as hero.
Reversal of fortune. · Unpromising hero (heroine). · Types of unpromising heroes (heroines). · view the constellation · filed as L111.3
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 6references
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.
- Missouri FrenchCarrière
- IndiaThompson-Balys
- ChineseGraham.
- general *Jacobs's list s. v. "Widow's son"
- general *Krappe Balor 126ff.
- general Garnett FL III 265