μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Mistreated orphan hero.

Reversal of fortune. · Unpromising hero (heroine). · Types of unpromising heroes (heroines). · view the constellation · filed as L111.4.4

Filed across the traditions
  • Eskimo (Greenland) Rink 93, Rasmussen I 123, 230, 238, II 34, 38, III 90, 295, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 188, (West Hudson Bay): ibid. 309, (Ungava): Turner RBAE XI 265, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 630.
Within the index

Filed under Orphan hero.

Filed beside it
Orphan hero lives with grandmother. Avenges slaughtered kin Orphan heroine Orphan brothers as heroes

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