Skin-sore as hero — Mythoi

Motif

Skin-sore as hero.

Reversal of fortune. · Unpromising hero (heroine). · Types of unpromising heroes (heroines). · view the constellation · filed as L112.7

Filed across the traditions

Africa (Basuto) Kidd The Bull of the Kraal and the Heavenly Maidens (London, 1908) 51ff. No. 1.

Within the index

Filed under Hero (heroine) of unpromising appearance.

1 finer motif beneath it

Filed beside it

Monster as hero Very small hero Deformed child as hero Dirty boy as hero "Burnt-belly" as hero "Scar-face" as hero Lame child as hero Ugly child becomes great poet One-armed hero Heroine born with pigeon's head

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