Orphan hero lives with grandmother. Avenges slaughtered kin.
Reversal of fortune. · Unpromising hero (heroine). · Types of unpromising heroes (heroines). · view the constellation · filed as L111.4.1
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference
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.
- N. Am. IndianThompson Tales 320 n. 156 (most of the references).