Deformed child as hero.
Reversal of fortune. · Unpromising hero (heroine). · Types of unpromising heroes (heroines). · view the constellation · filed as L112.3
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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.
- general Penzer I 184ff.
Within the index
Filed under Hero (heroine) of unpromising appearance.
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